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Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-06 Cached

Orasort, Oracle's patented column-sorting algorithm that achieves 5x faster sorting, entered the public domain after its patent expired in 2024, enabling cloud companies and open-source databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL to integrate it.

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