Yeah, this is true for new jobs, but some organizations have large libraries of 
Pig scripts and UDFs. I think what would be ideal is a Pig-to-Scala or 
Pig-to-Python binding layer similar to Shark’s sql2rdd. That way you could run 
your existing Pig scripts, but also call them from Scala or Python to 
transition over to these programming languages.

Matei

On Jan 22, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just an IMHO.  We've moved a number of Pig jobs to Spark jobs, and the
> benefits of a genuine conversion (type safety, terseness, debugging, lack
> of gratuitous shells and shims around UDFs, ...) are sufficient that a
> rewrite is probably preferable from an adapter unless you have an enormous
> Pig investment that you want to continue investing in.
> 
> -- Paul
> 
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> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Tom Graves <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hey everyone,
>> 
>> At one point I heard of pig on Spark (Spork).  The only thing I could find
>> on it was https://github.com/dvryaboy/pig and it doesn't look like there
>> has been any work on it in quite a while.
>> 
>> Does anyone know the current status of that or has tried it?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tom

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