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Nsort is the Performance Choice

Nsort is a sort/merge program that can quickly sort large amounts of data, using large numbers of processors and disks in parallel. Unique in its CPU efficiency, Nsort is the only commercial sort program to demonstrate:

  • 1 Terabyte sorts (33 minutes)
  • 1 Gigabyte/sec file read and write rates

Nsort has a long history of sorting massive, production data sets, such as:

  • Web logs for high-traffic web sites
  • Phone logs
  • Government agency data

Nsort for SQL Server Integration Services is now available. The Nsort component can sort arbitrarily large datasets, and produce partitioned outputs.

Nsort is the sort engine behind Fujitsu Software's NeoSort program which allows mainframe sorts to be executed on Windows systems while using multiple processors and disks.

Nsort is also integrated into Informatica Corporation's analytic software products, used by over 2,750 customers including 83 percent of the Fortune 100.

Nsort can now be used as third-party sort within SPSS server 15.0, providing SPSS users with the performance benefits of a multiprocessor sort.

You can try out Nsort immediately with our free online trials. Nsort is available on:

  • Red Hat Linux (x86, x64, Itanium)
  • Microsoft Windows (x86, x64 and Itanium)
  • Sun Solaris (SPARC)
  • Hewlett-Packard HP-UX (PA-RISC, Itanium)
  • Silicon Graphics Altix (Itanium), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, ProPack 4