This page describes how Pig interoperates with other platforms, such as HBase and Hive.
Pig and Cassandra
Starting with Cassandra has Pig support for loading and storing starting with Cassandra 0.7. It requires Pig 0.7, there is a LoadStoreFunc for Cassandra. Download +. The CassandraStorage class (for loading and storing) is found in the Cassandra src and it's currently in a contrib module (http://cassandra.apache.org/download/
). Details are found in the readme there. More hadoop support details are found here: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/HadoopSupport. A project that looks to ease integration between the two is Pygmalion: https://github.com/jeromatron/pygmalion/.
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