Performance / Price Sort

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dc.creatorGray, Jim
dc.creatorCoates, Joshua
dc.creatorNyberg, Chris
dc.date1998-09-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:23:29Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:23:29Z
dc.descriptionNTsort 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.
dc.descriptionOriginal word file at: http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/PennySort.doc
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9809004
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9809004
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/32959
dc.subjectDatabases
dc.subjectPerformance
dc.subjectD.5;H.2
dc.titlePerformance / Price Sort
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