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Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Tanmay Deshpande
Book Image

Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Tanmay Deshpande

Overview of this book

Big data is the current requirement. Most organizations produce huge amount of data every day. With the arrival of Hadoop-like tools, it has become easier for everyone to solve big data problems with great efficiency and at minimal cost. Grasping Machine Learning techniques will help you greatly in building predictive models and using this data to make the right decisions for your organization. Hadoop Real World Solutions Cookbook gives readers insights into learning and mastering big data via recipes. The book not only clarifies most big data tools in the market but also provides best practices for using them. The book provides recipes that are based on the latest versions of Apache Hadoop 2.X, YARN, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Apache Spark, Mahout and many more such ecosystem tools. This real-world-solution cookbook is packed with handy recipes you can apply to your own everyday issues. Each chapter provides in-depth recipes that can be referenced easily. This book provides detailed practices on the latest technologies such as YARN and Apache Spark. Readers will be able to consider themselves as big data experts on completion of this book. This guide is an invaluable tutorial if you are planning to implement a big data warehouse for your business.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Performing Order By queries in Pig


In this recipe, we will use the Order By operator in Pig scripts to get the desired output.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have a running Hadoop cluster as well as the latest version of Pig installed on it.

How to do it..

Order By is a very useful operator for data analysis when it comes to sequencing data records based on their values for certain attributes. In order to sequence the records in the proper order, Pig supports Order By.

To learn its usage, we will use the dataset that we took a look at in the previous recipe; in case you don't have the employee dataset, you can perform the following actions.

First of all, load the data in HDFS:

hadoop fs -mkdir /pig/emps_data
hadoop fs -put emps.txt /pig/emps_data

Next, we load data into a bag called emps, and then perform the Order By operation on this data on the basis of salary:

emps = LOAD '/pig/emps_data/emps.txt' AS (id, name, dept, salary);

Next, we will sequence the data by salary. We can...