Piotr Chudzik – Progress Report 1

During last 6 months I reviewed a number of technologies that will be used in implementing the data warehouse and evaluation framework. Together with my supervisor, Dr Luca Antiga, we came up with a very exciting and revolutionary architecture of the data warehouse that will utilize state-of-the-art technologies. We addressed one of the biggest technological challenges of this project, namely how to efficiently store and execute computations alongside data. To accomplish this task we decided to use Docker containers (https://www.docker.io/) which are considered to be “the next big thing” by many experts in the industry that will revolutionize cloud computing. Moreover we came up with a flexible and reproducible way of extracting information from multiple and diverse datasets.