Pig Developers, I looked at the Pig philosophy page as it serves as a guideline for accepting changes to Pig. Is it time to revisit the overall philosophy?
Reference: http://hadoop.apache.org/pig/philosophy.html Some items of interest: 1. SQL semantics and Pig With the recent addition of SQL on top of Pig, we are making changes to accommodate SQL semantics. Should this be part of Pig's philosophy? 2. Local mode and other parallel frameworks <snip> Pigs Live Anywhere Pig is intended to be a language for parallel data processing. It is not tied to one particular parallel framework. It has been implemented first on hadoop, but we do not intend that to be only on hadoop. </snip> Are we still holding onto this? What about local mode? Local mode is not being treated on equal footing with that of Hadoop for practical reasons. However, users expect things that work on local mode to work without any hitches on Hadoop. Are we still designing the system assuming that Pig will be stacked on top of other parallel frameworks? Thanks, Santhosh
