Hi Folks,
I would like to know how mahout community feels about having
some of the Mahout algorithms implemented in pig -
http://hadoop.apache.org/pig. The benefits of using Pig are many including.
1. Small learning curve, people with a bit of SQL knowledge will find it very
easy.
2. Operations like grouping, aggregations, join need just few lines of pig
code.
3. Insulation against Hadoop complexity - Job chains and JobConf.
4. Quick prototyping and hence increased programmer productivity.
I had Sean's opinion on this and he was not too comfortable with the Idea of
having things in different languages in Mahout. However, given the benefits of
PIG, I feel otherwise. I may be biased here due to my own experience of being
able to do more in lesser time in Pig then in M/R, so I thought let me ask how
folks feel.
Ted, I believe you have some PIG experience yourself so any thoughts on this ?
Regards
-...@nkur
