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Apache Pig
A programming framework used to analyze and transform large data sets. Apache Pig provides a high-level language known as Pig Latin which helps Hadoop developers write data analysis programs. By using various operators provided by the Pig Latin language, programmers can develop their own functions for reading, writing, and processing data.
| First released | 2008 |
| Developed by | Yahoo Research, Apache Software Foundation |
| Open-source | Yes |
| Used by | Yahoo, Cloudera, BMC Software |