Polyglot data processing

[johnaohara]

Currently Horreum supports execution of data manipulation functions in Javascript. Users are able to select scalar values, arrays of values or even segments of an uplaoded JSON document and pass these values as input parameters to a Javascript function. The javascript function is a user-defined function that allows users to process the input data and return either a scalar value, array of json object.

Many of the calculations required are statisical analysis, which often requires re-writing implementations in Javascript for the user.

There are many libraries that exist in different programming languages that already provide excellent statistical analysis for a wide range of problems.

Allowing users to write their own functions, using their preferred language and packages would the analytical capabilities of Horreum, without users having to re-write common algorithms in Javascript