STORING AND PROCESSING DATA ORGANIZED AS FLEXIBLE RECORDS

A system and method are disclosed for persisting data received from disparate data sources having different internal schemas. In operation, a data processing engine aggregates related data received from the different data sources and organizes the aggregated data into flexible records. A flexible record is a composite of associated fields aggregated from a set of records received from one or more data sources. Each field associated with a flexible record includes data received from a particular data source and specifies the particular data source as the source of the data. Flexible records are stored in a storage repository, and each flexible record is associated with at least one user who accesses data via a client device.