My understanding is that both Pig and Sawzall are intended for batch data processing and provide an abstraction layer above MapReduce.
BigTable, on the other hand, is more of a long-term random-access database. On 4/26/07, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jim Kellerman wrote: > Can someone comment on how Pig compares with Bigtable? > > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 13:10 -0700, Doug Cutting wrote: > >> FYI >> >> http://research.yahoo.com/project/pig >> >> Doug >> my understanding is bigtable/hbase stores the data mapreduce/hadoop manipulates/creates the data to be stored in bigtable via functions, and controls the distribution sawzall/pig is a query language to extract information from it. I think it would use create functions for mapreduce/hadoop to run. regards Ian
