> efforts such as PigLatin and Sawzall appear to be promising steps in this direction. Sawzall is a parallel logfile analyzer. It takes logfiles stored into G

> efforts such as PigLatin and Sawzall appear to be promising steps in this direction. Sawzall is a parallel logfile analyzer. It takes logfiles stored into GFS and MapReduces them for reliable billing (which used to be a nightmarish, fundamental revenue problem and is now a nonissue -- all you Nooglers live in a relative utopia). A unixy tool with a unixy mindset (gee, maybe that's because Rob Pike wrote it). It's a special-purpose tool that is incredibly good at its job, not a general-purpose filigreed hammer that is supposed to nail everything in sight. And the fact that the authors could possibly overlook this speaks volumes about their myopia. Stonebraker naturally refused to answer the most obvious criticism of all -- HEY ASSHOLE, WHAT ABOUT BIGTABLE? But then, if he addressed that, he'd no longer have an essay. And if Google took his advice they wouldn't have the revenues to have made it as a company. But that's not really something that academics think about, is it?