Is there anything in pig that supports external client to stream out a content of alias? a bit like Hive Thrift server...

[Jae Lee <Ja...@forward.co.uk>]

> Hi, 
> 
> In our application Hive is used as a database. i.e. a result set from a select query is consumed outside of hadoop cluster. 
> 
> The consumption process is not Hadoop friendly as in it is network bound not cpu/disk bound.
> 
> I'm in a process of converting hive query into pig query to see if it reads better.
> 
> What I'm stuck at is finding the content of a specific alias dump, from all the other stuff being logged, to be able to trigger further process.
> 
> STREAM <alias> THROUGH <cmd> seems to be one way to trigger a process, it's just that it seems not suitable for the kind of process we are looking at, because the <cmd> gets run in hadoop cluster.
> 
> any thought?
> 
> J