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At the present time, Pig's infrastructure layer consists of a compiler that produces sequences of Map-Reduce programs, for which large-scale parallel implementations already exist e.g., the Hadoop subproject.
Site Home Avkash Chauhan - MSFT 2012
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The Map-Reduce paradigm, and Hadoop in particular, have been a big success.
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That means that not only Erlang and interpreted languages like Javascript or Python can be used to write Map-Reduce jobs but also JVM based languages.
PlanetJava Michael Hunger 2010
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The more I look at Python generator functions and the idea of using Map-Reduce, the more I realize that Visitors and Subclass Extension are not the best design pattern.
Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community slott 2010
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Azure High Scale Compute (HSC) is a Windows Azure implementation of the Map-Reduce parallel processing architecture.
Site Home 2010
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That said, Map-Reduce is not the only important piece of compute infrastructure.
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Writing complex or even simple computations in raw Map-Reduce is verbose for programmers and intimidating for others who might want to play with the data.
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Abstractions over Map-Reduce like Cascading make hard things possible.
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That said, there are very generic abstractions like Map-Reduce that work well for a lot of use cases.
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At the present time, Pig's infrastructure layer consists of a compiler that produces sequences of Map-Reduce programs, for which large-scale parallel implementations already exist (e.g., the Hadoop subproject).
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010
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