StratoSphere - Cloud Computing Framework for Big Data Analytics

The Stratosphere System is an open-source cluster/cloud computing framework for Big Data analytics. It comprises of An extensible higher level language (Meteor) to quickly compose queries for common and recurring use cases, A parallel programming model (PACT, an extension of MapReduce) to run user-defined operations, An efficient massively parallel runtime (Nephele) for fault tolerant execution of acyclic data flows.

Stra­tosphere (named after the layer of the atmosphere above the clouds) explores the power of massively parallel computing for complex information manage­ment applications.