A lot of people get peeved when they see someone merge into traffic right as their lane ends, but transportation officials agree— this is the safer and faster way for traffic to proceed onto highways ...

Add merge/sort for ORDER BY cross-shard queries. This is an optimization on top of the current implementation. Right now, we are buffering all rows in memory. This is not great if result sets are ...

Abstract: This research work introduces a clustering-based in-place sorting algorithm, cluster sort. It is designed in such a way that it improves sorting efficiency by using data locality. It works ...

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts. By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel The federal government knows your mother’s maiden ...

This project implements basic disk-backed multi-way merge sort, with configurable input and output formats (i.e. not just textual sort). It should be useful for systems that process large amounts of ...