Building a HighLevel Dataflow System on top of MapReduce: The Pig Experience. - Alan Gates; Olga Natkovich; Shubham Chopra; Pradeep Kamath; Shravan Narayanam; Christopher Olston; Benjamin C. Reed; Santhosh Srinivasan; Utkarsh Srivastava (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2009)

Programming Pig - Dataflow Scripting with Hadoop. - Alan Gates (O'Reilly, 2011)

Apache Pig's Optimizer. - Alan Gates; Jianyong Dai; Thejas Nair (IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2013)

Major technical advancements in apache hive. - Yin Huai; Ashutosh Chauhan; Alan Gates; Günther Hagleitner; Eric N. Hanson; Owen O'Malley; Jitendra Pandey; Yuan Yuan 014; Rubao Lee; Xiaodong Zhang 001 (SIGMOD Conference, 2014)

Apache Hive: From MapReduce to Enterprise-grade Big Data Warehousing. - Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez; Ashutosh Chauhan; Alan Gates; Eugene Koifman; Owen O'Malley; Vineet Garg; Zoltan Haindrich; Sergey Shelukhin; Prasanth Jayachandran; Siddharth Seth; Deepak Jaiswal; Slim Bouguerra; et al. (SIGMOD Conference, 2019)

Hive. - Alan F. Gates (Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, 2019)

It Takes a Community: The Open-source Challenge. - Reynold Xin; Wes McKinney; Alan Gates; Chris McCubbin (ACM Queue, 2021)