Method and system for high performance integration, processing and searching of structured and unstructured data

Disclosed herein are methods and systems for integrating an enterprise's structured and unstructured data to provide users and enterprise applications with efficient and intelligent access to that data. In accordance with exemplary embodiments, the generation of classification information about unstructured data can be hardware-accelerated by processing streaming unstructured data through a reconfigurable logic device, a graphics processor unit (GPU), or chip multi-processor (CMP) to generate the classification metadata about the unstructured data.