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Joseph Adler commented on PIG-3015: ----------------------------------- Sorry to have taken so long to reply. I map any Pig type to a union of an Avro Type and Null. Here are the type mappings that I implemented: Bag -> Array Big Chararray -> String Byte Array -> Bytes Chararray -> String Datetime -> Long Double -> Double Float -> Float Integer -> Int Map -> Map Null -> Null Tuple -> Record Byte, Error, Generic Writable, Internal Map, Unknown aren't mapped to anything yet. Do we need to store these as well? > Rewrite of AvroStorage > ---------------------- > > Key: PIG-3015 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-3015 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: piggybank > Reporter: Joseph Adler > Assignee: Joseph Adler > Attachments: bad.avro, good.avro, PIG-3015-10.patch, > PIG-3015-11.patch, PIG-3015-2.patch, PIG-3015-3.patch, PIG-3015-4.patch, > PIG-3015-5.patch, PIG-3015-6.patch, PIG-3015-7.patch, PIG-3015-9.patch, > PIG-3015-doc-2.patch, PIG-3015-doc.patch, TestInput.java, Test.java, > with_dates.pig > > > The current AvroStorage implementation has a lot of issues: it requires old > versions of Avro, it copies data much more than needed, and it's verbose and > complicated. (One pet peeve of mine is that old versions of Avro don't > support Snappy compression.) > I rewrote AvroStorage from scratch to fix these issues. In early tests, the > new implementation is significantly faster, and the code is a lot simpler. > Rewriting AvroStorage also enabled me to implement support for Trevni (as > TrevniStorage). > I'm opening this ticket to facilitate discussion while I figure out the best > way to contribute the changes back to Apache. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira