Unix /bin/sort Replacement. Unix sort command for Windows.

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Unix /bin/sort Replacement

How Fast Do You Want to Sort Today?

Challenges:

The native Unix sort command is functionally limited and does not perform well (scale) as input volumes increase. Operating system sort verbs cannot:
• sort the largest files efficiently
• handle many data types
• filter, reformat or otherwise transform
• replace legacy sort functions or tools
• serve commercial DW sorting and aggregation needs

Nevertheless, you're familiar with Unix sort syntax, and may have an investment in jobs or scripts uing /bin/sort commands. You could use a more robust sort engine under the hood on Unix, or the same functionality on Windows.

Solutions:

CoSort packages for Unix, Linux and Windows include a faster, more robust drop-in replacement for the Unix /bin/sort program. You can use the same Unix sort syntax (but with the CoSort engine) on the command line, or in batch jobs, to reorder huge files in parallel. The CoSort engine outperforms the Unix system sort by several orders of magnitude and scales linearly in volume.

Once satisfied with the improved sort performance, most CoSort package users move beyond this functionality and onto another CoSort interface - the Sort Control Language (SortCL) tool. CoSort's SortCL program allows you to combine sorting operations with simultaneous data:

• Transformation (scrub, sort, join, group, etc.)
• Conversion (data types, record layouts, files)
• Protection (field-level encryption, de-ID, etc.)
• Reporting (custom detail, delta and summaries)

plus legacy sort and data migrations, Oracle unloading, ETL tool collaboration, and some of the related solutions outlined throughout this site like data validation and scrubbing, pattern matching, complex transforms, etc.

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