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

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OrasortOraclesorting algorithmdatabase performanceCPU registers8-byte comparison.

Author: theanonymousone

Date: 7/6/2026

Article Summary:

This article explains Oracle's Orasort algorithm, a sorting technique that made sorting 5x faster by utilizing CPU registers and extracting 8 bytes from strings for comparison.