Apache Pig stores data

May 26, 2021 Apache Pig

In the last chapter, we learned how to load data into Apache Pig. Y ou can use the Store operator to store loaded data in the file system, and this chapter describes how to use the Store operator to store data in Apache Pig.

Grammar

The syntax of the Store statement is given below.

STORE Relation_name INTO ' required_directory_path ' [USING function];

Cases

Let's say we have a file in HDFS that contains the following student_data.txt.

001,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
002,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata
003,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi
004,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune
005,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
006,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai.

Use the LOAD operator to read it into the relationship student, as shown below.

grunt> student = LOAD 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt' 
   USING PigStorage(',')
   as ( id:int, firstname:chararray, lastname:chararray, phone:chararray, 
   city:chararray );

Now, let's store the relationship in the HDFS directory "/pig_Output/", as shown below.

grunt> STORE student INTO ' hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/ ' USING PigStorage (',');

Output

After executing the store statement, you get the following output. /b10> Create a directory with the specified name and store the data in it.

2015-10-05 13:05:05,429 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.
MapReduceLau ncher - 100% complete
2015-10-05 13:05:05,429 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.tools.pigstats.mapreduce.SimplePigStats - 
Script Statistics:
   
HadoopVersion    PigVersion    UserId    StartedAt             FinishedAt             Features 
2.6.0            0.15.0        Hadoop    2015-10-0 13:03:03    2015-10-05 13:05:05    UNKNOWN  
Success!  
Job Stats (time in seconds): 
JobId          Maps    Reduces    MaxMapTime    MinMapTime    AvgMapTime    MedianMapTime    
job_14459_06    1        0           n/a           n/a           n/a           n/a
MaxReduceTime    MinReduceTime    AvgReduceTime    MedianReducetime    Alias    Feature   
     0                 0                0                0             student  MAP_ONLY 
OutPut folder
hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/ 
 
Input(s): Successfully read 0 records from: "hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_data/student_data.txt"  
Output(s): Successfully stored 0 records in: "hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output"  
Counters:
Total records written : 0
Total bytes written : 0
Spillable Memory Manager spill count : 0 
Total bags proactively spilled: 0
Total records proactively spilled: 0
  
Job DAG: job_1443519499159_0006
  
2015-10-05 13:06:06,192 [main] INFO  org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine
.mapReduceLayer.MapReduceLau ncher - Success!

Verify

You can verify the stored data as shown below.

Step 1

First, use the ls command to list the files pig_output directory named " , as shown below.

hdfs dfs -ls 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/'
Found 2 items
rw-r--r-   1 Hadoop supergroup          0 2015-10-05 13:03 hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/_SUCCESS
rw-r--r-   1 Hadoop supergroup        224 2015-10-05 13:03 hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/part-m-00000

You can observe that two files were created after the store statement was executed.

Step 2

Using the cat command, list the contents of a file named part-m-00000, as shown below.

$ hdfs dfs -cat 'hdfs://localhost:9000/pig_Output/part-m-00000' 
1,Rajiv,Reddy,9848022337,Hyderabad
2,siddarth,Battacharya,9848022338,Kolkata
3,Rajesh,Khanna,9848022339,Delhi
4,Preethi,Agarwal,9848022330,Pune
5,Trupthi,Mohanthy,9848022336,Bhuwaneshwar
6,Archana,Mishra,9848022335,Chennai