May 10, 2025
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In 1985, data sorting benchmark sorted 100MB of data (1M records), it took 1 hour. Now, it takes less than a second on any commercial computer.
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In 2009 it took Yahoo, 173 minutes to sort 100TB of data, in 2016 it was achieved in 134 seconds.
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In 2014 it costed $4.51 / TB to sort through 100TB of data, in 2022 it costed $0.97.
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This website offers some benchmarks, we often needed to re-create some benchmarks because they got obsolete.
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The complexity brought by Big Data tool has a cost, and in this case it was 235x slower.
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As of 16 October 2024, the size of the current version including all articles compressed is about 24.05 GB without media.
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Stackoverflow is hosted on dedicated servers and the scale isn’t that big
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DHH from 37signals has documented how they quit the cloud Hardware costs and more details