Analytic Helpers - Field Guide to Hadoop - page 71

There are high-level calls in SHadoop that generate MapReduce jobs, so it's possible to use
SHadoop without writing MapReduce code. There are clear usage examples at the website.
In addition to the MapReduce implementation, there is an extension to Pig, called Pigeon,
that allows spatial queries in Pig Latin. This is available at the project page in GitHub . Pi-
geon has the stated goal of supporting as many of the PostGIS functions as possible. This is
an ambitious but extremely useful goal because PostGIS has a wide following and the ST
functions it supports make it fairly simple to do spatial analytics in a high-level language like
Pig/Pigeon.
The code is all open source and available on GitHub .
Tutorial Links
The official project page has a handful of links to great tutorials .