A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

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Propose the introduction of Radix Sort into TuGraph-Analytics to achieve improved sorting performance under specific data types and scales. The solution will dynamically select the optimal sorting ...

Astronomers use brokers to identify which signals to pursue in an endless stream of alerts. Looking up at the stars at night, it may not be obvious that the universe is constantly changing. But it is: ...

TuGraph-Analytics is a high-performance graph data analysis system that currently utilizes Java's built-in priority queue for sorting, which is primarily based on heap sort. However, when sorting keys ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...