hi Dominique, I didn't see much going on for pig for a while. I think there are not many people still using it
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 5:41 AM Dominique De Vito <ddv36...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to explore a use case for Pig. > > Developers within my company have plenty of Excel docs + macro programming > (it should be VBA / I don't know myself how to create an Excel macro). They > want to exit this kind of programming. They are looking for proposals to > treat their Excel docs. > > Exit VBA : not appropriate > Another solution could be Spark, but my guess is that, coming from VBA, > it's a bit harsh. The gap is wide. > > So, I came to think about Pig. Pig has several advantages here: > * imperative style programming > * Pig could run on a single PC, according to a local mode > * Pig could be used to distribute work (on an Hadoop cluster) if the > processing is important enough (due to the data volume). > > The point is: how to run Pig without any Hadoop configuration on a local PC > ? That was my previous question/email for this ML. > > This being said, is there any other person using Pig for a similar > Excel-related use case ? > > Thanks. > > Regards, > Dominique >
