The Splunk query language is what SQL should have been and this is the hill I will die on.
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I really wanted to love Apache Pig for this reason but, since I was working with in-memory data sets and had pre-existing SQL experience, always found it easier to just do SQL than figure out how to get Hadoop up and running consistently.
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It feels like "pipe data through a series of transformations where you could cut it at any point and have something pokeable and where each transformation is easy to reason about" is a natural abstraction, at least coming from Unix-land.
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