Hyracks: A Flexible and Extensible Foundation for Data-Intensive Computing Vinayak Borkar, Michael Carey, Raman Grover, Nicola Onose, Rares Vernica Computer Science Department, University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697 vborkar@ics.uci.edu Abstract—Hyracks is a new partitioned-parallel software plat- form designed to run data-intensive computations on large shared-nothing clusters of compu