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[Pig Wiki] Trivial Update of "IsPigRightForYou" by CorinneC
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= Is Pig the right platform for your scenario? =
- If you:
+ '''Pig is right for you''' if you:
* Need to analyze data that is small (''kilobytes''), tall (''megabytes''), grande (''gigabytes''), or venti (''terabytes'').
* Want to be able to create, modify and reuse your analysis logic easily.
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* Do simple processing (e.g., count the number of images on the web)
* ... or complex processing (e.g., count the number of images that contain faces).
- then '''Pig is right for you'''.
- On the other hand, if you:
+
+ '''Pig is not right for you''' if you:
* Need to retrieve individual records, or small ranges of records, from a very large data set (e.g., lookup Joe Smith's customer profile).
* Have real-time data serving requirements (e.g., assemble a web page for Joe in under 100ms).
* Need to be able to do random writes to specific data records.
* Don't like barnyard animals.
- then '''Pig is not right for you'''.
-