NICTA/scoobi. Crunch. Crunch - Scrunch. Introduction Scrunch is an experimental Scala wrapper for the Apache Crunch Java API, based on the same ideas as the Cascade project at Google, which created a Scala wrapper for FlumeJava.
Why Scala? In many ways, Scala is the perfect language for writing MapReduce pipelines. Scala supports a mixture of functional and object-oriented programming styles and has powerful type-inference capabilities, allowing us to create complex pipelines using very few keystrokes.