does anyone find Cascading for Hadoop Map Reduce useful?

Question

I\'ve been trying Cascading, but I cannot see any advantage over the classic map reduce approach for writing jobs.

Map Reduce jobs gives me more freedom and Cascading se

Answer 1

I worked on cascading for couple of years and below are useful things in cascading.

1. code testability
2. easy integration with other tools
3. easily extensibile
4. you will focus only on business logic not on keys and values
5. proven in production and used by even twitter.

I recommend people use cascading most of the times.