Chapter 3. Running Pig with the Tez Execution Engine

By default, Apache Pig runs against Apache MapReduce, but administrators and scripters can configure Pig to run against the Apache Tez execution engine to take advantage of more efficient execution and fewer reads of HDFS. Pig supports Tez in all of the following ways:

Command Line	Use the -x command-line option: `pig -x tez`
Pig Properties	Set the following configuration property in the conf/pig.properties file: `exectype=tez`
Java Option	Set the following Java Option for Pig: `PIG_OPTS="-D exectype=tez"`

Users and administrators can use the same methods to configure Pig to run against the default MapReduce execution engine.

Command Line	Use the `-x` command-line option: `pig -x mr`
Pig Properties	Set the following configuration property in the conf/pig.properties file: `exectype=tez`
Java Option	Set the following Java Option for Pig: `PIG_OPTS="-D exectype=tez"`
Pig Script	Use the `set` command: `set exectype=mr;`

There are some limitations to running Pig with the Tez execution engine:

Queries that include the ORDER BY clause may run slower than if run against the MapReduce execution engine.
There is currently no user interface that allows users to view the execution plan for Pig jobs running with Tez. To diagnose a failing Pig job, users must read the Application Master and container logs.

	Note
	Users should configure parallelism before running Pig with Tez. If parallelism is too low, Pig jobs will run slowly. To tune parallelism, add the `PARALLEL` clause to your PIG statements.

Running a Pig-on-Tez Job with Oozie

To run a Pig job on Tez using Oozie, perform the following configurations:

Add the following property and value to the job.properties file for the Pig-on-Tez Oozie job:

<property>
     <name>oozie.action.sharelib.for.pig</name>
     <value>pig, hive</value>
</property>

Create the $OOZIE_HOME/conf/action-conf/pig directory and copy the tez-site.xml file into it.

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Chapter 3. Running Pig with the Tez Execution Engine