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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)

Paper ID
h115ebfcac5edf7ca
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.0010494385
Overall Rank
6 | 99.97%
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376726

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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}
}

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7,054 Wide Table Layout Optimization based on Column Ordering and Duplication 2017 SIGMOD 5.5956321e-05
7,222 BSMA: A Benchmark for Analytical Queries over Social Media Data 2014 VLDB 5.5655505e-05
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7,864 Oracle In-Database Hadoop: When MapReduce Meets RDBMS 2012 SIGMOD 5.4219475e-05
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8,462 Shasta: Interactive Reporting At Scale 2016 SIGMOD 5.3148581e-05
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8,614 Building Highly-Optimized, Low-Latency Pipelines for Genomic Data Analysis 2015 CIDR 5.2878561e-05
8,650 Piranha: Optimizing Short Jobs in Hadoop 2013 VLDB 5.2809021e-05
8,852 Toward Progress Indicators on Steroids for Big Data Systems 2013 CIDR 5.2488117e-05
9,048 The Power of Nested Parallelism in Big Data Processing – Hitting Three Flies with One Slap – 2021 SIGMOD 5.2155403e-05
9,147 From SPARQL to MapReduce: The Journey Using a Nested TripleGroup Algebra 2011 VLDB 5.2062018e-05
9,288 QMapper for Smart Grid: Migrating SQL-based Application to Hive 2015 SIGMOD 5.1860131e-05
9,341 SpongeFiles: Mitigating Data Skew in MapReduce Using Distributed Memory 2014 SIGMOD 5.1779529e-05
9,488 DataGarage: Warehousing Massive Performance Data on Commodity Servers 2010 VLDB 5.1559518e-05
9,717 Rank Join Queries in NoSQL Databases 2014 VLDB 5.1233669e-05
9,727 Versatile Optimization of UDF-heavy Data Flows with Sofa 2014 SIGMOD 5.1207461e-05
9,877 PAXQuery: Parallel Analytical XML Processing 2015 SIGMOD 5.1046184e-05
9,938 Graft: A Debugging Tool For Apache Giraph 2015 SIGMOD 5.0932503e-05
11,766 QaaD (Query-as-a-Data): Scalable Execution of Massive Number of Small Queries in Spark 2023 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
11,778 Udon: Efficient Debugging of User-Defined Functions in Big Data Systems with Line-by-Line Control 2023 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,234 Integration of Large-Scale Data Processing Systems and Traditional Parallel Database Technology 2019 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,376 Logical Aspects of Massively Parallel and Distributed Systems 2016 PODS 4.9605343e-05
12,402 dmapply: A functional primitive to express distributed machine learning algorithms in R 2016 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,424 Parallel Evaluation of Multi-Semi-Joins 2016 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,432 Let's Rethink Join Optimization in Distributed Systems 2015 CIDR 4.9605343e-05
12,457 A Demonstration of Rubato DB: A Highly Scalable NewSQL Database System for OLTP and Big Data Applications 2015 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,460 ShareInsights - An Unified Approach to Full-stack Data Processing 2015 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,514 Anti-Combining for MapReduce 2014 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,646 Declarative Error Management for Robust Data-Intensive Applications 2012 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,662 ReStore: Reusing Results of MapReduce Jobs in Pig 2012 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
57 On Random Sampling over Joins 1999 SIGMOD 0.0003999751
76 Map-Reduce-Merge: Simplified Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters 2007 SIGMOD 0.00036932687
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