Redivis: A ScalableWeb Platform for Business Research
Abstract
Redivis is a web platform specifically tailored to the needs of research computing in the context of large, restricted datasets. At the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Redivis has been leveraged to distribute terabyte-scale datasets to the research community. The platform addresses longstanding challenges in the administration of large, high-risk datasets, including scalable data ingest and curation tools, integrated access management, and robust audit trails. In turn, it also provides an accessible, high-performance compute environment to end users, allowing them to collaboratively build reproducible analytical workflows in SQL, R, Python, Stata, and SAS.