In a previous post I illustrated the use of Hadoop to analyze Apache Tomcat log files (catalina.out). Below I perform the same Tomcat log analysis using PIG. The motivation behind PIG is the ability us a descriptive language to analyze large sets of data rather than writing code to process it, using Java or Python for example. PIG latin is the descriptive query language and has some similarities with SQL. These include grouping and filtering. Load in the data First I launch into the interactive local PIG command line, grunt. Commands are not......

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