Nice!
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Jeremy Hanna
<jeremy.hanna1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A little while back, I started a project called pygmalion for example scripts
> and UDFs for people using Pig with Cassandra. Currently there are a few
> handy UDFs in there like:
>
> FromCassandraBag: a way to convert from what Cassandra returns
> (key:chararray, columns:bag {column:tuple (name, value)}) to something more
> tabular (key, value1, value2, value3). You specify the values you want to
> project - it's good for tabular data.
> ToCassandraBag: a way to convert from (key, value1, value2, value3) to what
> Cassandra expects when writing - (key:chararray, columns:bag {column:tuple
> (name, value)}) - the column names are extracted from the variable names in
> the Pig script.
> Both contributed by Jacob Perkins with slight revisions by Jeremy Hanna
>
> StringConcat: probably something everyone implements but instead of CONCAT
> that only does two strings, it does any number of strings.
>
> GenerateTimeUUID: a udf that generates a time uuid with or without a time to
> base it on.
>
> https://github.com/jeromatron/pygmalion/
>
> It definitely needs more work and examples, but I've been using the UDFs in
> there for a while with Cassandra 0.7.5 (previously 0.7-branch). Now that
> 0.7.5 is released, I'd just like to let people know about it if they would
> like to contribute or even just use it.
--
Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support
http://www.datastax.com
