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Shiva Achari
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Shiva Achari

Shiva Achari has over 8 years of extensive industry experience and is currently working as a Big Data Architect consultant with companies such as Oracle and Teradata. Over the years, he has architected, designed, and developed multiple innovative and high-performance large-scale solutions, such as distributed systems, data centers, big data management tools, SaaS cloud applications, Internet applications, and Data Analytics solutions. He is also experienced in designing big data and analytics applications, such as ingestion, cleansing, transformation, correlation of different sources, data mining, and user experience in Hadoop, Cassandra, Solr, Storm, R, and Tableau. He specializes in developing solutions for the big data domain and possesses sound hands-on experience on projects migrating to the Hadoop world, new developments, product consulting, and POC. He also has hands-on expertise in technologies such as Hadoop, Yarn, Sqoop, Hive, Pig, Flume, Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch, Zookeeper, Storm, Redis, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Talend, R, Mahout, Tableau, Java, and J2EE. He has been involved in reviewing Mastering Hadoop, Packt Publishing. Shiva has expertise in requirement analysis, estimations, technology evaluation, and system architecture along with domain experience in telecoms, Internet applications, document management, healthcare, and media. Currently, he is supporting presales activities such as writing technical proposals (RFP), providing technical consultation to customers, and managing deliveries of big data practice groups in Teradata.
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In this chapter, we have explored two wrappers of MapReduce programming–Pig and Hive.

MapReduce is very powerful but a very complex high learning curve. The difficult part is to manage the MapReduce programs and the time taken for the development and optimizations. For easier and faster development in MapReduce, we have abstraction layers such as Pig, which is a wrapper of the Pig Latin procedural language on top of MapReduce, and Hive which is a SQL-like HiveQL wrapper.

Pig is used in the data flow model, as it uses the DAG model to transform the Pig Latin language to the MapReduce job. Pig does the transformation in three plans, namely Logical to Physical to MapReduce, where each plan translates the statements and produces an optimized plan of execution. Pig also has the grunt mode for analyzing data interactively. Pig has very useful commands to filter, group, aggregate, cogroup, and so on, and it also supports user-defined functions.

Hive is used by users who are more comfortable...

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Shiva Achari

Shiva Achari has over 8 years of extensive industry experience and is currently working as a Big Data Architect consultant with companies such as Oracle and Teradata. Over the years, he has architected, designed, and developed multiple innovative and high-performance large-scale solutions, such as distributed systems, data centers, big data management tools, SaaS cloud applications, Internet applications, and Data Analytics solutions. He is also experienced in designing big data and analytics applications, such as ingestion, cleansing, transformation, correlation of different sources, data mining, and user experience in Hadoop, Cassandra, Solr, Storm, R, and Tableau. He specializes in developing solutions for the big data domain and possesses sound hands-on experience on projects migrating to the Hadoop world, new developments, product consulting, and POC. He also has hands-on expertise in technologies such as Hadoop, Yarn, Sqoop, Hive, Pig, Flume, Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch, Zookeeper, Storm, Redis, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Talend, R, Mahout, Tableau, Java, and J2EE. He has been involved in reviewing Mastering Hadoop, Packt Publishing. Shiva has expertise in requirement analysis, estimations, technology evaluation, and system architecture along with domain experience in telecoms, Internet applications, document management, healthcare, and media. Currently, he is supporting presales activities such as writing technical proposals (RFP), providing technical consultation to customers, and managing deliveries of big data practice groups in Teradata.
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