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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'''. 
-