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		M_Rys_Msft on Oct 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing U-SQL, a language for big data process... Because Pig's overall adoption is low. 80% of Hadoop jobs last time I checked were written in Hive. Besides Pig's extensibility story is not that good. But I am glad you like Pig, because Pig is supported in the system as well :).

cbsmith on Oct 6, 2015 [–]

> Because Pig's overall adoption is low. 80% of Hadoop jobs last time I checked were written in Hive.

Yeah, but putting another name on it doesn't seem likely to change that, does it?

> Besides Pig's extensibility story is not that good.

Really? I consider it far more extensible than say Hive....

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