Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Setting up Pigeon on Pig and Hadoop

From Pig to Pigeon

Pigeon

Pig is a framework that allows developers to express their MapReduce programs in a nice and easy-to-use high level language, termed Pig Latin. Pigeon builds on top of that by providing a set of user-defined functions (UDFs) that can manipulate spatial data. In this blog post, I'll describe in a easy steps how to install and run Pigeon on an existing Hadoop cluster running Pig.