What is Sizzle? ---------------
Sizzle is an open source implementation of the Sawzall programming language designed for interoperation with the Hadoop MapReduce and DFS stack. It is implemented in pure Java, is easily extendible, and the programs produced by it will run anywhere that has a recent Hadoop installed, even if Sizzle is not also installed.
Why Sizzle? -----------
Up until a few days ago, there was no publicly available implementation of Sawzall.
About six months ago, I asked some of the authors of _Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall_ [[http://code.google.com/p/szl/wiki/Interpreting_the_Data]] for more specific details about how Sawzall worked than was explained in that high-level document. Mr. Pike explained that he intended to open the source to Sawzall; however, when I didn't hear from him for several months I started my own implementation.