Yeah I had the same high-level impression of what Pig is... if indeed Pig is to (Java-based) Hadoop as szl is to MapReduce, and the project is in Java with heavy use of Hadoop, yes I think there's a good argument to keep it all together -- perhaps just separating the pig scripts into a separate source root of course.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:40 AM, prasenjit mukherjee <[email protected]> wrote: > Pig is a higher level language ( more like Swazall for Google's > mapreduce ) on top of hadoop which makes hadoop easy to use. > > It has SQL like syntaxes and can break the command into separate > mapreduce tasks and also chain them. From execution point of view they > are as simple as running a shell script with very few > operators/commands.
