I found many options recently, and interesting in their comparisons primarely by maturity and stability.
Scalding also has the advantage of significant open source projects built atop it, such as Matrix API and Algebird.
Here are some examples: http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2012/08/scalding-for-impatient.html
Cascalog was released almost two years before Scalding, and arguably has more advanced features for building robust workflows: https://github.com/nathanmarz/cascalog/wiki