Ignis: An efficient and scalable multi-language Big Data framework

César Piñeiro, Rodrigo Martínez-Castaño, Juan Carlos Pichel

Abstract: Highlights•A new step forward toward the real convergence of HPC and Big Data worlds.•Efficient execution of multi-language applications without additional overhead.•Outperforms Spark considering some of the most typical algorithmic models.•Ignis API inspired by Spark to facilitate the adoption by the research community.•A completely isolated framework running inside Docker containers.