ATLANTA, June 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- LexisNexis® Risk
Solutions today announced the 10-year open source anniversary of
HPCC Systems®, its platform for big data insights. The
enterprise-proven platform is capable of processing in 24/7
environments and powers the products and solutions of LexisNexis
Risk Solutions.
"Ten years is a long time, but it's dwarfed by the achievements of
our HPCC Systems open source community."
Built in 2000 as a proprietary system for a handful of
organizations, the HPCC Systems platform was a strategic
differentiator at a time where big data was not even described as
such. In 2011 LexisNexis Risk Solutions generously released the
platform as an open source project. The platform uses ECL, a
unique, high-level data-oriented declarative programming language
that enables data scientists to focus on what needs to be done,
rather than superfluous details around the specific implementation.
These characteristics make the HPCC Systems platform a proven
leader in efficiency.
"Back in 2000, we were pushing the envelope on what could be
done with the commercially available solutions at the time," said
Flavio Villanustre, vice president,
Technology and CISO, LexisNexis Risk Solutions. "The complexity of
our processing requirements made existing solutions non-viable, so
we invented, from the ground up, a data-intensive supercomputer
which ultimately became the HPCC Systems platform."
Today, the open source HPCC Systems platform has
adopted a number of standards and developed capabilities in a broad
range of areas, including machine learning and analytics and an
improved security model. The most recent 8.0
version release has made the platform fully capable of running
on virtualized and containerized environments as its users drive
their respective moves towards the public cloud.
"Ten years is a long time, but it's dwarfed by the achievements
of our HPCC Systems open source community," said Villanustre. "It
has been a wild ride but a worthwhile one and I personally look
forward to our next milestone."
Visit the HPCC Systems website for more information and
listen to the special edition podcast series featuring stories
from the HPCC Systems community commemorating this event.
About LexisNexis Risk Solutions
LexisNexis Risk
Solutions harnesses the power of data and advanced analytics to
provide insights that help businesses and governmental entities
reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the
globe. We provide data and technology solutions for a wide range of
industries including insurance, financial services, healthcare and
government. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout
the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global
provider of information and analytics for professional and business
customers. For more information, please visit
www.risk.lexisnexis.com and www.relx.com.
About HPCC Systems
Discover HPCC Systems, an
end-to-end data lake management solution. HPCC Systems is a mature
platform that has been heavily used in commercial applications for
almost two decades, predating the development of Hadoop. Created by
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, an innovative pioneer in big data
processing, and open source for a decade, HPCC Systems features a
vibrant development community that continues to push the boundaries
of big data.
This powerful, versatile platform makes it easier for developers
to see the data they're working with and manipulate it as needed.
Flexible information delivery makes it easier for your clients to
query and find the data they need — and it runs analysis and
queries faster than other platforms such as SQL or Hadoop.
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