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title:  Next Generation Big Data Analytics Platform
description: Stratosphere is an Open Source platform for massively parallel big data analytics. It features a rich set of operators, advanced, iterative data flows, an efficient runtime, and automatic program optimization.
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  <h1>Stratosphere</h1>
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  <h2 align="center"><strong>What is Stratosphere?</strong></h2>
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        A Research Project
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        Stratosphere is a research project whose goal is to develop the next generation Big Data Analytics platform. The project includes universities from the area of Berlin, namely, TU Berlin, Humboldt University and the Hasso Plattner Institute.
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        A data analysis platform called Apache Flink
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The Stratosphere project developed, and contributes to a platform that became an Apache project in 2014 under the name <a href="http://flink.apache.org/">Apache Flink</a>. You can visit the project's page at <a href="http://flink.apache.org/">flink.apache.org</a>.
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