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The default answer for consulting is "it depends" is the same answer for questions about Hadoop. When you put those together then the resounding answer for Hadoop consulting is "IT DEPENDS", but I do feel for this particular Simple Open Georgia Use Case using the Format & Sample Data for Open Georgia that Pig is a better solution than Java MapReduce. That surely won't be the case always, but the simplicity of this Pig script surely makes it the winner for this situation and across when only looking at these two choicesoptions. We'll just have to wait and see if the final installment of this series declares Hive an event even better alternative than Pig to this problem.