Thanks for providing this valuable perspective. I sort of group grep/Perl scripts/everything else together as manual processes. What I was getting at is the whole "roll your own" scripts is a royal pain in the ass.<p>For analytics, you're right, search is only part of the equation. That's why we make MapReduce easy to use on a cluster. You can write Pig or Hive scr<p>We also have templates for common data formats (and ways to roll your own) so you can turn unstructured log text into structured data, so that a histogram of hit counts per day-of-week is just a few lines of a script (or maybe even a search).