Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing
Summary: Pig Latin sits between SQL and MapReduce, enabling procedural analysts to express data flows without MapReduce coding. Pig compiles Pig Latin to Hadoop MapReduce plans and offers an integrated debugger; open-source under Apache Incubator with Yahoo-scale deployments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Christopher Olston (Yahoo)
- 2. Benjamin Reed (Yahoo)
- 3. Utkarsh Srivastava (Yahoo)
- 4. Ravi Kumar (Yahoo)
- 5. Andrew Tomkins (Yahoo)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{olston_sigmod08,
title = {{Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing}},
author = {Olston, Christopher and Reed, Benjamin and Srivastava, Utkarsh and Kumar, Ravi and Tomkins, Andrew},
series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376726},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376726},
year = {2008}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 153 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,482 | LifeRaft: Data-Driven, Batch Processing for the Exploration of Scientific Databases | 2009 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,485 | From Declarative Languages to Declarative Processing in Computer Games | 2009 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,595 | Large-Scale Collaborative Analysis and Extraction of Web Data | 2008 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | On Random Sampling over Joins | 1999 | SIGMOD | 0.00040810225 |
| 72 | Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00037695852 |
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