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Hereof, what is pig tool?

Apache Pig is an abstraction over MapReduce. It is a tool/platform which is used to analyze larger sets of data representing them as data flows. Pig is generally used with Hadoop; we can perform all the data manipulation operations in Hadoop using Pig.

One may also ask, why are Apaches pigs? Apache Pig is a platform for observing or inspecting large sets of data. It allows developers to create query execution routines to analyze large, distributed datasets. This saves them from doing low-level work in MapReduce.

Also question is, what is pig server?

Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs.

What is the primary purpose of pig in the Hadoop architecture?

A) Pig is a high-level scripting language that is used with Apache Hadoop. Pig enables data workers to write complex data transformations without knowing Java.