Comment by ivanprado

Hi, I'm one of the developers of Pangool. The idea of Pangool is not to be yet another higher level API on top of Hadoop but rather to pose a replacement for the low-level Hadoop Java MapReduce API. Pangool has the same performance and flexibility than that of the Java MapReduce API although it makes several things a lot easier and convenient. There is no tradeoff, just advantages. There will be cases where you'd want to use Pig or Cascading. There will be some other cases where you'd want the flexibility and efficiency of MapReduce. For those cases we conceived Pangool. Nowadays only very advanced Hadoop users could write efficiently-performing MapReduce Jobs. Pangool hides all the advanced boilerplate code needed for writing highly efficient MapReduce jobs, making things like secondary sorting or reduce-side joins extremely easy.