Sort Benchmark - how fast can we sort information?

This list shows the best effort records for sorting records in a database in one minute on a cluster of unmodified off the shelf computers. Moore's law carries on!* Steve

*Moore's law states that information technology performance doubles approximately every two years.

IN ONE MINUTE:

2009, 955 GB

2007, 214 GB
2006, 40 GB
2004, 34 GB
2000, 12 GB
1998, 5.8 GB
1997, 3.5 GB
1995, 1.1 GB

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