Apache Pig
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Pig is a dataflow programming environment for processing very large files. Pig's
language is called Pig Latin. A Pig Latin program consists of a directed
acyclic graph where each node represents an operation that transforms data.
Operations are of two flavors: (1) relational-algebra style operations such as
join, filter, project; (2) functional-programming style operators such as map,
reduce. 

Pig compiles these dataflow programs into (sequences of) map-reduce jobs and
executes them using Hadoop. It is also possible to execute Pig Latin programs
in a "local" mode (without Hadoop cluster), in which case all processing takes
place in a single local JVM. 

General Info
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For the latest information about Pig, please visit our website at:

   http://incubator.apache.org/pig/

and our wiki, at:

   http://wiki.apache.org/pig/

Getting Started
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1. To learn about Pig, try http://wiki.apache.org/pig/PigTutorial
2. To build and run Pig, try http://wiki.apache.org/pig/BuildPig and
http://wiki.apache.org/pig/RunPig
3. To check out the function library, try http://wiki.apache.org/pig/PiggyBank


Contributing to the Project
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We welcome all contributions. For the details, please, visit
http://wiki.apache.org/pig/HowToContribute.

Incubator Disclaimer
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Apache Pig is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software
Foundation (ASF). Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects 
until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, 
and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with 
other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily
a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate
that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.