Difference between Pig and Hive? Why have both? [closed]

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Check out this post from Alan Gates, Pig architect at Yahoo!, that compares when would use a SQL like Hive rather than Pig. He makes a very convincing case as to the usefulness of a procedural language like Pig (vs. declarative SQL) and its utility to dataflow designers.

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