Pig Overview
Hive Vs Pig Feature Hive Pig Language SQL-like PigLatin Schemas/Types Yes (explicit) Yes (implicit) Partitions Yes No Server Optional (Thrift) No User Defined Functions (UDF) Yes (Java) Yes (Java) Custom Serializer/Deserializer Yes Yes DFS Direct Access Yes (implicit) Yes (explicit) Join/Order/Sort Yes Yes Shell Yes Yes Streaming Yes Yes Web Interface Yes No JDBC/ODBC Yes (limited) No Apache Pig and Hive are two projects that layer on top of Hadoop, and provide a higher-level language for using Hadoop's MapReduce library. Apache Pig provides a scripting language for...