links for 2008-01-16

• Christopher Olston
  web-scale data management (the Pig project)
  (tags: yahoo pig pig-latin hadoop database large-scale-fabric-computing)
• Geeking with Greg: Yahoo Pig and Google Sawzall
  It is hard to tell from the limited documentation available, but the Pig project at Yahoo Research seems to have a lot in common with Sawzall at Google. Both are high level programming languages targeting massively parallel processing across huge clusters
  (tags: sawzall pig hadoop mapreduce yahoo parallel grid optimization)