What is pig storage and why it is used

Question

Hi,

I am currently working with pig and, I have a query that what pig storage is and why it is been used? Can anyone explain this?

Answer 1

Hello,

In pig, there is a default load function, that is pig storage. Also, we can use pig storage, whenever we want to load data from a file system into the pig. We can also specify the delimiter of the data while loading the data using pig storage (how the fields in the records are separated).