 In 2004, LexisNexis acquired Seisint Inc. and their high-speed parallel processing platform and successfully utilized this platform to integrate the data systems of Choicepoint Inc. when they acquired that company in 2008.In 2011, the HPCC systems platform was open-sourced under the Apache v2.0 License.CERN and other physics experiments have collected big data sets for many decades, usually analyzed via high-throughput computing rather than the map-reduce architectures usually meant by the current "big data" movement.