Oh what a wild ride the last few weeks have been. The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC for short), something I had expected to be interesting to a dozen folks or so at best, has gone kinda viral, with hundreds of people competing and engaging. In Java, as intended, but also beyond: folks implemented the challenge in languages such as Go, Rust, C/C++, C#, Fortran, or Erlang, as well databases (Postgres, Oracle, Snowflake, etc.), and tools like awk. It’s really incredible how far people have p...
