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CDAP vs Pig: What are the differences?
What is CDAP? Open source virtualization platform for Hadoop data and apps. Cask Data Application Platform (CDAP) is an open source application development platform for the Hadoop ecosystem that provides developers with data and application virtualization to accelerate application development, address a broader range of real-time and batch use cases, and deploy applications into production while satisfying enterprise requirements.
What is Pig? 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. .
CDAP and Pig belong to "Big Data Tools" category of the tech stack.
CDAP and Pig are both open source tools. It seems that Pig with 583 GitHub stars and 449 forks on GitHub has more adoption than CDAP with 346 GitHub stars and 178 GitHub forks.
Pros of CDAP
Pros of Pig
- Finer-grained control on parallelization2
- Proven at Petabyte scale1
- Open-source1
- Join optimizations for highly skewed data1