Apache Pig is a platform for analyzing large data sets that consists of a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs, coupled with infrastructure for evaluating these programs. The salient property of Pig programs is that their structure is amenable to substantial parallelization, which in turns enables them to handle very large data sets.

a data architecture flame war begins - excellent!

good to see more people discussing this. as a long time sql developer but also a skeptic when needed, we need to admit that it's not always the best solution.

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