Developers can use Hunk to build their big data applications on top of data in Hadoop using a set of well-known languages and frameworks. The Hunk web framework allows building applications on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and/or the NoSQL data store. The analytics tier is based on Splunk’s Search Processing Language (SPL) designed for data exploration across large, different datasets. This system decouples the storage tier from the data access and analytics tiers, so enabling Hunk to route requests to different data stores. One of the key components of the Hunk architecture is the Splunk Virtual Index. Hunk uses a set of high-level user and programming interfaces to offer speed and simplicity of getting insights from large unstructured and structured datasets.
Hunk is a commercial data analysis platform developed by Splunk for rapidly exploring, analyzing, and visualizing data in Hadoop and NoSQL data stores.
Fabrizio Marozzo, in Data Analysis in the Cloud, 2016 4.1.3 Hunk
