Page 5 Work Tier Standardize, Cleanse, Transform MapReduce Pig Raw Tier Extract & Load WebHDFS Flume Sqoop Gold Tier Transform, Integrate, Storage MapReduce Pig Conform, Summarize, Access HiveQL Pig Access Tier HCat Provides unified metadata access to Pig, Hive & MapReduce • Organize data based on source/derived relationships • Allows for fault and rebuild process