I feel your pain. I started http://discoproject.org http://discoproject.org back in 2007, trying to make MapReduce more easily approachable. If vanilla MapRedu

I feel your pain. I started http://discoproject.org http://discoproject.org back in 2007, trying to make MapReduce more easily approachable. If vanilla MapReduce is too low-level for you, you might want to take a look at http://bitdeli.com http://bitdeli.com which provides a cloud-based scripting platform for real-time data (disclaimer: I am a co-founder of Bitdeli). Neither Disco nor Bitdeli provides OLAP out of the box but if you are ok with writing a screenful of Python to process your data, you might find them useful.