Startup Crunches 100 Terabytes of Data in a Record 23 Minutes

There’s a new record holder in the world of "big data."

On Friday, Databricks–a startup spun out of the University California, Berkeley–announced that it has sorted 100 terabytes of data in a record 23 minutes using a number-crunching tool called Spark, eclipsing the previous record held by Yahoo and the popular big-data tool Hadoop.

By Klint Finley

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/startup-crunches-100-terabytes-data-record-23-minutes/