What’s New in CDH4.1 Pig by Cheolsoo Park.
From the post:
Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that provides a high-level language called Pig Latin. Pig users can write complex data analysis programs in an intuitive and compact manner using Pig Latin.
Among many other enhancements, CDH4.1, the newest release of Cloudera’s open-source Hadoop distro, upgrades Pig from version 0.9 to version 0.10. This post provides a summary of the top seven new features introduced in CDH4.1 Pig.
Cheolsoo covers these new features:
- Boolean Data Type
- Nested FOREACH and CROSS
- Ruby UDFs
- LIMIT / SPLIT by Expression
- Default SPLIT Destination
- Syntactical Sugar for TOTUPLE, TOBAG, and TOMAP
- AvroStorage Improvements
Enjoy!