Big Data and Analytics Unit 5 – Hadoop Ecosystem Frameworks Pig Hive HBase: AKTU previous year questions
33 AKTU questions from Unit 5 (Hadoop Ecosystem Frameworks Pig Hive HBase) asked in 2018–2025, tagged by marks, year and topic. In short: about 27 marks of every paper come from this unit; the most asked topic is Apache Hive (17 times); 31 questions came back in a later year. The latest ones are listed below; on the page you can filter them by 2-mark or long questions, topic and repeats.
Unit 5 previous year questions
- How does Hive differ from Pig in the Hadoop ecosystem? (2 marks, 2025, Apache Hive)
- What are the key differences between Hive and traditional SQL databases (2 marks, 2025, Apache Hive)
- Evaluate the use of Hive, Pig, and HBase for different Big Data application scenarios. When would you choose one over the others? (7 marks, 2025, Apache Hive)
- Explain the architecture of HIVE. Also explain data flow in HIVE. (7 marks, 2025, Apache Hive)
- Explain the role of Pig Latin as a high-level scripting language for processing large datasets in cloud environments. How does using Pig Latin on cloud-based Hadoop platforms simplify data transformation and analysis compared to traditional MapReduce programming? (7 marks, 2025, Apache Pig)
- Describe HBase and its data model. How does HBase differ from traditional relational databases, and what types of applications benefit most from using HBase (7 marks, 2025, HBase)
- Explain the process of data loading and querying in Hive. How does HiveQL differ from standard SQL, and what are its advantages (7 marks, 2025, Apache Hive)
- Compare and Contrast (i) Apache Pig vs Map-Reduce (ii) Pig vs SQL (iii) Pig vs HIVE (7 marks, 2025, Apache Pig)
- Define HiveQL and its key features. (2 marks, 2024, Apache Hive)
- What is Apache Pig? (2 marks, 2024, Apache Pig)
- List out the Data Processing Operators used in Pig. (2 marks, 2024, Apache Pig)
- Describe the Grunt shell in Apache Pig. (2 marks, 2024, Apache Pig)
Most asked Unit 5 topics
- Apache Hive – asked 17 times
- Apache Pig – asked 11 times
- HBase – asked 3 times
Unit 5 question pattern
- 2-mark questions: 12 asked in 2018–2025
- 7-mark questions: 6 asked in 2018–2025
- 10-mark questions: 15 asked in 2018–2025
- About 27 marks from Unit 5 in every paper
- 31 questions were asked again in a later year
Unit 5 questions year by year
- 2025: 8 Unit 5 questions asked (46 marks across that year's papers)
- 2024: 9 Unit 5 questions asked (58 marks across that year's papers)
- 2023: 9 Unit 5 questions asked (58 marks across that year's papers)
- 2022: 5 Unit 5 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
- 2018: 2 Unit 5 questions asked (20 marks across that year's papers)