Computer Science – Databases
Scientific paper
1998-09-02
Computer Science
Databases
Original word file at: http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/PennySort.doc
Scientific paper
NTsort is an external sort on WindowsNT 5.0. It has minimal functionality but excellent price performance. In particular, running on mail-order hardware it can sort 1.5 GB for a penny. For commercially available sorts, Postman Sort from Robert Ramey Software Development has elapsed time performance comparable to NTsort, while using less processor time. It can sort 1.27 GB for a penny (12.7 million records.) These sorts set new price-performance records. This paper documents this and proposes that the PennySort benchmark be revised to Performance/Price sort: a simple GB/$ sort metric based on a two-pass external sort.
Coates Joshua
Gray Jim
Nyberg Chris
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