title: does anyone find Cascading for Hadoop Map Reduce useful?
body: <p>I've been trying Cascading, but I cannot see any advantage over the classic map reduce approach for writing jobs.</p>
  
  <p>Map Reduce jobs gives me more freedom and Cascading seems to be putting a lot of obstacles. </p>
  
  <p>Might make a good job for making simple things simple, but complex things.. I find them extremely hard </p>
  
  <p>Is there something I'm missing. Is there an obvious advantage of Cascading over the classic approach? </p>
  
  <p>In what scenario should I chose cascading over the classic approach? Any one using it and happy? </p>