“Give me a lever long enough… and I shall move the world” — Archimedes Parallelism is computing’s leverage, a force multiplier acting against the weight of big data. Cloud-hosted, horizontally scalable systems have the power to move even planetary sized data sets with speed. This blog post discusses our efforts to lift one such data set, achieving a scan rate of 26 billions records per second, wi
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