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By John | July 3, 2008
Maybe you should. Yahoo entered and won a sort contest using 1000 lines of Java code with the open source Hadoop. They were able to use a 900 node cluster and sort 10 billion 100 byte records (1 TeraByte) in 209 seconds. Here is a PDF of the details.
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