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Open Source Solution Breaks World Sorting Records

Posted by Soulskill on from the out-of-sorts dept.

allenw writes "In a recent blog post, Yahoo's grid computing team announced that Apache Hadoop was used to break the current world sorting records in the annual GraySort contest. It topped the 'Gray' and 'Minute' sorts in the general purpose (Daytona) category. They sorted 1TB in 62 seconds, and 1PB in 16.25 hours. Apache Hadoop is the only open source software to ever win the competition. It also won the Terasort competition last year."

3 of 139 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Java by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    .NET is even more insecure.

  2. Re:Use C++ and save 10x the hardware by ClosedSource · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But how much of those libraries exist to achieve Java's religious beliefs on abstraction?

  3. Ivan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How typical of the FOSS pilgrims! They love adorning themselves with wooden medals. It's not software quality but mostly quantity that beats in this contest. Besides, it's so an insignificant contest, that the big players simply didn't take part.