Getting started with Pig and Hive on Hadoop in Azure HDInsight

HDinsight makes Apache Hadoop available as a service in cloud. Hadoop offers a distributed platform to store and manage large volumes of unstructured data. We will learn how to use HDInsight, Hadoop, Pig and Hive to analyze large volumes of data.

Outline:

1. Overview. HDInsight, Hadoop and other related tools

2. Creating a Hadoop cluster in HDInsight

3. Run a Hive query in a Hadoop cluster

4. Introduction to Hive and Pig

5. Viewing, debugging and getting results from the Hive query

6. Analyzing a log file using Pig