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Welcome to an Introduction to HPCC Systems

HPCC Systems is the Open Source Data Lake technology developed by LexisNexis Risk Solutions to solve Big Data problems for the LexiNexis business.

HPCC Systems is designed to host and process petabyte of data and integrate data from thousands of sources.

One important distinction between other similar tools and HPCC Systems is that the innovation and quality of HPCC Systems has a direct impact to the success of LexisNexis. Therefore, HPCC Systems is rigorously tested and supported by experts in data analysis.

HPCC Systems is used and certified in production environments within LexisNexis.

The following are a few facts that you need to keep in mind:

• HPCC Systems is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License
• LexisNexis uses the Open Source version
• 100% free online training and documentation
• AWS integration with Open Source cloud formation templates
• 100% free support for companies willing to build their own HPCC Systems expertise

The HPCC Systems introduction is divided into the following two parts:

An introduction to the HPCC Systems architecture

The goal of the architecture discussion is to provide an introduction of HPCC Systems from the view of a solutions developer, and to answer questions such as - "why HPCC Systems uses a declarative approach to programming?" and "why HPCC Systems helps data scientists who understand the domain?"

Go to Architecture Page

An introduction to ECL the programming language

The goal of the ECL programming discussion is to introduce the data scientist to the minimum tools needed to solution a real-world problem. You will be amazed how quickly you can get started and start solving problems.

Go to ECL Introduction Page

An introduction to ECL programming structures

Understand how to code a program using modular structure that enable you to create clean and reusable code.

Go to ECL Programming Structures

An introduction to ECL for Spark Programmers

How can Spark programmers get them started quickly without having to learn ECL from scratch?

Go to Tutorial

Analyze NYC Taxi Trip Data using HPCC Systems and ECL

You are introduced to an end to end coding example. Topics covered involve data importing, cleaning, enriching, analyzing, predicting using machine learning and exporting data.

Go to Taxi Tutorial