{"id":218,"date":"2008-11-22T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T19:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-11-24T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T23:15:34","slug":"sorting-a-lot-of-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Sorting a LOT of data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Loads o' data\" href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/sorting-1pb-with-mapreduce.html\" target=\"_blank\">Very interesting article<\/a> on how Google sorts data &#8211; the punchline being that they sorted 1 petabyte (which is 1000 terabytes, or 1 million gigabytes &#8211; don&#8217;t even try to comprehend it &#8211; it&#8217;s not possible) in 6 hours and two minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Trust me when I tell you &#8211; that is absolutely amazing.\u00c2\u00a0 Sorting is really the heart of what Google does, and to be able to do it that fast in astounding.\u00c2\u00a0 And on only 4000 computers!<\/p>\n<p>The other interesting part of this story is how they actually STORED that much sorted data.\u00c2\u00a0 Easy!\u00c2\u00a0 Just put it on 48,000 hard drives.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not kidding.\u00c2\u00a0 Read the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting article on how Google sorts data &#8211; the punchline being that they sorted 1 petabyte (which is 1000 terabytes, or 1 million gigabytes &#8211; don&#8217;t even try to comprehend it &#8211; it&#8217;s not possible) in 6 hours and two minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 Trust me when I tell you &#8211; that is absolutely amazing.\u00c2\u00a0 Sorting is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}