Taking MapReduce Further With Pig Latin
March 25th, 2009 chrisOne of the most viewed posts we’ve written about here is our post on MapReduce from a little while ago, so when picking out the next paper to look over, I thought something related to it would be optimal. With that in mind, Yahoo! Research has a relatively new paper that they published in SIGMOD ’08, titled Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing. Pig Latin bills itself as a natural progression of MapReduce in several ways, and indeed looks pretty interesting.
