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Pig vs AtScale: What are the differences?
Pig: Platform for analyzing large data sets. 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. ; AtScale: The virtual data warehouse for the modern enterprise. Its Virtual Data Warehouse delivers performance, security and agility to exceed the demands of modern-day operational analytics.
Pig and AtScale belong to "Big Data Tools" category of the tech stack.
Pig is an open source tool with 580 GitHub stars and 448 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pig's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of AtScale
Pros of Pig
- Finer-grained control on parallelization2
- Proven at Petabyte scale1
- Open-source1
- Join optimizations for highly skewed data1