Diffrent modes of Pig Execution

In order to achieve the desired processing in Pig there are two modes available : -

1. Local Mode
2. HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) Mode Or MR Mode Or Clustered Mode

 Local Mode

In this Mode the Apache Pig Will take the input from LFS (Local File System) and the Output will also produced on the same i.e LFS only.

Note : -There is no intervantion of HDFS 

HDFS Mode Or MR Mode Or Clustered Mode

In this mode Apache pig will take the input from HDFS and the output will also produced on HDFS only.

Note : -There is no intervantion of LFS here


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