To give us some more detail run this code against your data and post the output summary (not the report.txt file)

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $t0 = time();

my $infile = 'products.txt';
my %data  = ();
my %total = ();
my $records = 0;

open IN,'<',$infile or die "Could not open $infile $!";
while (<IN>){
  my ($date, $product, $price, $qu) = split /\s+/,$_;
  $data{$date}{$product}{'price'}   = $price;  
  $data{$date}{$product}{'qu'}      = $qu;  

  $total{$product}{'count'}        += 1;
  $total{$product}{'price'}{'sum'} += $price;
  $total{$product}{'qu'}{'sum'}    += $qu;  
  ++$records;
}
close IN;

# calculate stats
my $outfile = 'report.txt';
open OUT,'>',$outfile or die "Could not open $outfile";
for my $prod (keys %total){
  my $count = $total{$prod}{'count'};
  
  # mean
  $total{$prod}{'price'}{'mean'} = $total{$prod}{'price'}{'sum'}/$coun
+t;
  $total{$prod}{'qu'}{'mean'}    = $total{$prod}{'qu'}{'sum'}/$count;
  
  # std dev squared
  my ($sum_x2,$sum_y2);
  for my $date (keys %data){
    my $x = $data{$date}{$prod}{'price'} - $total{$prod}{'price'}{'mea
+n'}; 
    $sum_x2 += ($x*$x);
    my $y = $data{$date}{$prod}{'qu'} - $total{$prod}{'qu'}{'mean'}; 
    $sum_y2 += ($y*$y);
  }
  
  $total{$prod}{'price'}{'stddev'} = sprintf "%.4f",sqrt($sum_x2/$coun
+t);
  $total{$prod}{'qu'}{'stddev'}    = sprintf "%.4f",sqrt($sum_y2/$coun
+t);
  
  my $line = join "\t",$prod,
  $total{$prod}{'price'}{'mean'},
  $total{$prod}{'price'}{'stddev'},
  $total{$prod}{'qu'}{'mean'},
  $total{$prod}{'qu'}{'stddev'};
  
  print OUT $line."\n";
  
}
close OUT;

# summary
my $dur = time - $t0;
printf "
Products : %d
Dates    : %d
Records  : %d
Run Time : %d s",0+keys %total, 0+keys %data, $records, $dur;

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Update - code to create a 75MB test file 

open OUT,'>','products.txt' or die "$!";
my @d = (0,31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31);
for my $p ('0001'..'2000'){
  my $product = "product_$p";
  for my $y (2015..2017){
    $d[2] = ($y % 4) ? 28 : 29;
    for my $m (1..12){
      for my $d (1..$d[$m]){
        my $date = sprintf "%04d-%02d-%02d",$y,$m,$d;
        my $price = int rand(500);
        my $qu    = int rand(90_000);
        print OUT "$date\t$product\t$price\t$qu\n";
      }
    }
  }
}
close OUT;

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On my i5 desktop it takes about 5 seconds to correlate the price of 1 product against the other 1999. I guess 2 million pairs would be less than 2 hours

poj

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