Externalsortinginjava

External-Memory Sorting in Java: useful to sort very large files using multiple cores and an external-memory algorithm.

The versions 0.1 of the library are compatible with Java 6 and above. Versions 0.2 and above require at least Java 8.

This code is used in Apache Jackrabbit Oak.

Code sample

import com.google.code.externalsorting.ExternalSort;

//... inputfile: input file name
//... outputfile: output file name
// next command sorts the lines from inputfile to outputfile
ExternalSort.mergeSortedFiles(ExternalSort.sortInBatch(new File(inputfile)), new File(outputfile));
// you can also provide a custom string comparator, see API

API Documentation

http://www.javadoc.io/doc/com.google.code.externalsortinginjava/externalsortinginjava/

Maven dependency

You can download the jar files from the Maven central repository: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/code/externalsortinginjava/externalsortinginjava/

You can also specify the dependency in the Maven "pom.xml" file:

    <dependencies>
         <dependency>
	     <groupId>com.google.code.externalsortinginjava</groupId>
	     <artifactId>externalsortinginjava</artifactId>
	     <version>[0.1.9,)</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>

How to build

• get the java jdk
• Install Maven 2
• mvn install - builds jar (requires signing)
• mvn test - runs tests