Pig Distributed cache

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What is the difference between getShipFiles & getCacheFiles in EvalFunc class?

Assuming any file specified in this method are available to exec method from distributed cache

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apache-pigdistributed-cachepig-udf

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getCacheFiles() Allow a UDF to specify a list of hdfs files it would like placed in the distributed cache.

getShipFiles() Allow a UDF to specify a list of local files it would like placed in the distributed cache.

So getShipFiles get files from local files and Cache get them form HDFS.