This post tells the "History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google" - https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/history-of-massive-scale-sorting-

This post tells the "History of massive-scale sorting experiments at Google" - https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/history-of-massive-scale-sorting-experiments-at-google https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/history-of-ma... When I asked why BigQuery doesn't do these sorts, the answer came straight from the post "Nobody really wants a huge globally-sorted output. We haven’t found a single use case for the problem as stated." These accomplishments are awesome nevertheless! Disclaimer: I'm Felipe Hoffa, and I work for Google (http://twitter.com/felipehoffa http://twitter.com/felipehoffa).