The One Billion Row Challenge

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Summary:
  • The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) is a coding challenge that involves retrieving temperature measurement values from a text file and calculating the min, mean, and max temperature per weather station using a Java program.
  • The challenge aims to explore the benefits of modern Java and push the platform to its limits in terms of performance.
  • Participants must follow certain rules and submit their implementation to the challenge repository on GitHub for evaluation.
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