Who's the author for Wonderdog? Can Russell or the author talk about it in our next hackthon? Also we need to discuss with the author about it.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Alan Gates <ga...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > From https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2803 posted yesterday by > Russell. I'm copying it here because I think we need to discuss this and > decide what we want to do: > > I propose to add Wonderdog to Pig contrib/ > Wonderdog is an Apache 2.0 licensed project that adds Hadoop and Pig > integration for ElasticSearch. This lets you index any Pig relation with a > single UDF call, which is very powerful. Both writing searchable indexes and > loading based on search queries is supported. > More information on Wonderdog is available at > https://github.com/infochimps-labs/wonderdog and a great introduction to > ElasticSearch is available at > http://www.elasticsearchtutorial.com/elasticsearch-in-5-minutes.html > Wonderdog broke in Pig 0.10.0, and was patched to work here: > https://github.com/infochimps-labs/wonderdog/pull/9 Even still, there is the > issue of Pig creating schema files when storing and loading JSON that must be > manually removed to make Wonderdog go. > Moving forward, I would like the Pig project to maintain Wonderdog in > contrib/ and verify that it works with each version increment. Wonderdog is > an incredibly useful library that is license compatible with Pig itself. > Along with ElasticSearch, it adds the ability for any user to index his Pig > relations and to load subsets of data by pushing search queries down to > ElasticSearch. > I use Wonderdog in production and in my book, so I volunteer to do the > maintenance on contrib/wonderdog.
