in reply to Processing ~1 Trillion records

I've only glanced at the various answers quickly, so maybe I'm off the mark, but:

My immediate reaction to needing to process that many rows is to try to parallelize the process. It will put a higher load on the DB, but that's what the DB is really good at. Obviously your dataset needs to be partitionable, but I can't imagine a dataset of that size that can't be split in some way.

Michael

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Re^2: Processing ~1 Trillion records
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 26, 2012 at 12:47 UTC
    Also you need to be sure that it's able to produce results continuously over all those many days. If the program as-writ dies fifteen minutes before starting to write its first file (all data spewing out of RAM only at that point) the entire length of time is waste. No good.
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