Patent attributes
A method and system for analyzing data records includes allocating groups of records to respective processes of a first plurality of processes executing in parallel. In each respective process of the first plurality of processes, for each record in the group of records allocated to the respective process, a query is applied to the record so as to produce zero or more values. Zero or more emit operators are applied to each of the zero or more produced values so as to add corresponding information to an intermediate data structure. Information from a plurality of the intermediate data structures is aggregated to produce output data.