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You are responsible for writing your company's ETL pipelines to run on an Apache Hadoop cluster. The pipeline will require some checkpointing and splitting pipelines. Which method should you use to…

The correct answer is A. PigLatin using Pig. Explanation/Reference: Pig is scripting language which can be used for checkpointing and splitting pipelines.

Submitted by wei.xz· Mar 30, 2026Building and operationalizing data processing systems

Question

You are responsible for writing your company's ETL pipelines to run on an Apache Hadoop cluster. The pipeline will require some checkpointing and splitting pipelines. Which method should you use to write the pipelines?

Options

  • APigLatin using Pig
  • BHiveQL using Hive
  • CJava using MapReduce
  • DPython using MapReduce

How the community answered

(47 responses)
  • A
    91% (43)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    2% (1)

Explanation

Explanation/Reference: Pig is scripting language which can be used for checkpointing and splitting pipelines.

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#Apache Pig#ETL pipelines#Hadoop#checkpointing

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