Open Source Solution Breaks World Sorting Records 139
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."
When's it going to be 1.0? (Score:3, Insightful)
What data? (Score:1, Insightful)
This doesn't say anything if we don't know what kind of records were supposed to be sorted.
They won the "Who has the most moneys" award. (Score:5, Insightful)
Java (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What data? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Java (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, not to endorse the "Java is slow" meme or anything, but starting from a red light I can beat most cars across the intersection on my bike.
Likewise if I had to drive across country in the shortest time possible, I'd choose a Ford F250 if the challenge stipulated I had to bring 3000 pounds of bricks with me.
Speed is a very task specific notion.
Re:Use C++ and save 10x the hardware (Score:1, Insightful)
Development isn't any easier or faster than C++.
Ridiculous. Java's library provides 100 times what C++'s library provides, which makes it a solid ground for application development (which is what it excels at).
Re:When's it going to be 1.0? (Score:3, Insightful)
Isn't 1.0 production for most software jargon?
Nah, that's 6.0
MS DOS 6.0
IE 6.0
Visual Studio 6.0
I doubt anybody would want to use an earlier version than that!
Re:When's it going to be 1.0? (Score:3, Insightful)