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Pig vs Azure HDInsight: What are the differences?

Developers describe Pig as "Platform for analyzing large data sets". Pig is a dataflow programming environment for processing very large files. Pig's language is called Pig Latin. A Pig Latin program consists of a directed acyclic graph where each node represents an operation that transforms data Operations are of two flavors: (1) relational-algebra style operations such as join, filter, project; (2) functional-programming style operators such as map, reduce. . On the other hand, Azure HDInsight is detailed as "A cloud-based service from Microsoft for big data analytics". It is a cloud-based service from Microsoft for big data analytics that helps organizations process large amounts of streaming or historical data.

Pig and Azure HDInsight can be categorized as "Big Data" tools.

Pig is an open source tool with 585 GitHub stars and 448 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pig's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is Azure HDInsight?

    It is a cloud-based service from Microsoft for big data analytics that helps organizations process large amounts of streaming or historical data.

    What is Pig?

    Pig is a dataflow programming environment for processing very large files. Pig's language is called Pig Latin. A Pig Latin program consists of a directed acyclic graph where each node represents an operation that transforms data. Operations are of two flavors: (1) relational-algebra style operations such as join, filter, project; (2) functional-programming style operators such as map, reduce.

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    What are some alternatives to Azure HDInsight and Pig?
    Amazon EMR
    It is used in a variety of applications, including log analysis, data warehousing, machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, and bioinformatics.
    Azure Databricks
    Accelerate big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions with Azure Databricks, a fast, easy and collaborative Apache Spark–based analytics service.
    Hadoop
    The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.
    Azure Machine Learning
    Azure Machine Learning is a fully-managed cloud service that enables data scientists and developers to efficiently embed predictive analytics into their applications, helping organizations use massive data sets and bring all the benefits of the cloud to machine learning.
    Azure Data Factory
    It is a service designed to allow developers to integrate disparate data sources. It is a platform somewhat like SSIS in the cloud to manage the data you have both on-prem and in the cloud.
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