By owen.omalley
via developer.yahoo.com
Published: Jul 03 2008 / 12:58
One of Yahoo's Hadoop clusters sorted 1 terabyte of data in 209 seconds, which beat the previous record of 297 seconds in the annual general purpose (daytona) terabyte sort benchmark. The sort benchmark, which was created in 1998 by Jim Gray, specifies the input data (10 billion 100 byte records), which must be completely sorted and written to disk.
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rick replied ago:
Amazing results, and also noteworthy that this is the first time either a Java or an open source program has won.
tbr replied ago:
Does this mean we can finally bury the 'Java is slow' myth once and for all?
alphadog replied ago:
No. Because it is not a test of Java.
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