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• MOHAMED JAFEER.M
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• B.TECH CSE B
USER DEFINED FUNCTION
Here's a general overview of how user-defined functions can be used in big data:
2. Data Cleansing: UDFs can be utilized for data cleaning tasks, such as
removing duplicates, handling missing values, or normalizing inconsistent data
formats. These functions can implement customized rules or algorithms to clean
the data based on the user's needs.
3. Feature Engineering: UDFs are often employed in big data pipelines for
feature engineering, where new features are derived from existing data to improve
the performance of machine learning models. UDFs can implement domain-
specific logic to extract relevant features or perform aggregations on the data.
It's worth noting that UDFs in big data frameworks are designed to operate in a
distributed and parallel manner, taking advantage of the distributed computing
capabilities of these frameworks. This allows for efficient processing of large
volumes of data across multiple nodes in a cluster.
CASE STUDY:
Problem Statement:
Solution:
To address this problem, the financial institution decides to utilize a big data
processing framework like Apache Flink and define a user-defined function
(UDF) to perform real-time fraud detection on the incoming transaction stream.
The first step is to ingest the transaction data stream into Apache Flink. This can
be achieved by connecting to real-time data sources like Apache Kafka or by
leveraging Flink's connectors for various streaming platforms.
2. Defining the UDF:
The defined UDF is applied to the incoming transaction stream using Flink's
DataStream API. The UDF is connected to a transformation operation, such as
`map` or `filter`, which applies the function to each transaction in real-time across
the Flink cluster. The result is a filtered stream containing only the potentially
fraudulent transactions.
Benefits:
Low Latency: The real-time processing capabilities of the big data framework
ensure minimal latency in detecting and responding to fraudulent transactions.
Syntax
Given below is the syntax of the Register operator.
REGISTER path;
Example
As an example let us register the sample_udf.jar created earlier in this chapter.
Start Apache Pig in local mode and register the jar file sample_udf.jar as shown
below.
$cd PIG_HOME/bin
$./pig –x local
REGISTER '/$PIG_HOME/sample_udf.jar'
Note − assume the Jar file in the path − /$PIG_HOME/sample_udf.jar
Syntax
Given below is the syntax of the Define operator.
DEFINE alias {function | [`command` [input] [output] [ship] [cache] [stderr] ]
};
Example
Define the alias for sample_eval as shown below.
DEFINE sample_eval sample_eval();
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CONCLUSION: