"Read and write data to/from Elasticsearch within Hadoop/MapReduce libraries. Automatically converts data to/from JSON. Supports MapReduce, Cascading, Hive and Pig."
"Cascalog is a fully-featured data processing and querying library for Clojure or Java. The main use cases for Cascalog are processing "Big Data" on top of Hadoop or doing analysis on your local computer. Cascalog is a replacement for tools like Pig, Hive, and Cascading and operates at a significantly higher level of abstraction than those tools."
"Scalding is a Scala library that makes it easy to specify Hadoop MapReduce jobs. Scalding is built on top of Cascading, a Java library that abstracts away low-level Hadoop details. Scalding is comparable to Pig, but offers tight integration with Scala, bringing advantages of Scala to your MapReduce jobs."