ECL/HPCC: A Unified Approach to Big Data

Abstract

As a result of the continuing information explosion, many organizations are experiencing what is now called the ``Big Data'' problem. This results in the inability of organizations to effectively use massive amounts of their data in datasets which have grown too big to process in a timely manner. Data-intensive computing represents a new computing paradigm [26] which can address the big data problem using high-performance architectures supporting scalable parallel processing to allow government, commercial organizations, and research environments to process massive amounts of data and implement new applications previously thought to be impractical or infeasible.