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The LexisNexis usage is in data processing that cannot be accommodated by a single machine. The answer is to split up the data and the processing so you can have from several to hundreds (or perhaps thousands) of machines (or nodes) all working away at pieces of a larger problem. HPCC is divided into two primary computing clusters; THOR, which is the Data Factory (or Refinery), responsible for cleaning and linking large amounts of data in many formats, and ROXIE, which is the Rapid Data Delivery Engine responsible for providing query results at sub-second response times. Behind both of these clusters is the Enterprise Control Language, which is ideally suited for the manipulation of big data. Is it It is scalable, extensible, non-procedural and declarative.
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