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What is the difference between Pig and SQL?

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What is the difference between Pig and SQL?..

Answer / Ram Gopal

Pig is a high-level data flow language that runs on top of Hadoop, while SQL is a standard query language used for relational databases. The main difference is that Pig supports procedural scripting, whereas SQL is declarative.

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