Fowl Play: I ditched Java's Sort for DuckDB's because it's quacker

This is the code source I used to compare Java's sort vs DuckDB's sort. Refer to my article for the results.

Prerequisites

In order to build and run the benchmarks, you will need:

• Java JDK >= 25
• Latest stable Apache Maven

Build

mvn package

Run

Benchmark a located at src/main/java/io/paulbares/benchmark. To run JdkSortString i.e. sorting with Collections.sort() a list of random strings of 100000 elements:

java -Xmx20g -Xms20g --add-opens=java.base/java.nio=ALL-UNNAMED --class-path target/duckdbsort-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar io.paulbares.benchmark.JdkSortString 100000