Programming Pig

Pig Latin comes with a number of built-in functions (the eval, load/store, math, string, bag, and tuple functions) and a number of scalar and complex data types. Additionally, Pig allows function and data-type extension by means of UDFs and dynamic invocation of Java methods.

Pig data types

Pig supports the following scalar data types:

  • int: a signed 32-bit integer
  • long: a signed 64-bit integer
  • float: a 32-bit floating point
  • double: a 64-bit floating point
  • chararray: a character array (string) in Unicode UTF-8 format
  • bytearray: a byte array (blob)
  • boolean: a boolean
  • datetime: a datetime
  • biginteger: a Java BigInteger
  • bigdecimal: a Java BigDecimal

Pig supports the following complex data types:

  • map: an associative array enclosed by [], with the ...

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