Yahoo’s PIG vs Google’s Sawzell

To make effective use of large computing clusters in the analysis of large data sets, it is helpful to restrict the programming model to guarantee high parallelism

Just as Google Sawzall is built on top of MapReduce, Yahoo Pig is built on top of Hadoop (an open source clone of MapReduce that is supported by Yahoo). Both are high level programming languages targeting massively parallel processing across huge clusters.

However, there do appear to be differences in the languages. Sawzall syntax appears heavily influenced by Java or Pascal, where Pig appears to be motivated by an attempt to extend SQL.

Ref: http://glinden.blogspot.com/2007/04/yahoo-pig-and-google-sawzall.html

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