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		jmclnx on Jan 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The One Billion Row Challenge Is there a way to create this file without having java ? This is for use on a BSD where Java may not work too well. Thanks

dvko on Jan 4, 2024 [–]

You can run the bin/create-sample program from this C implementation here: https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc

It’s just the city names + averages from the official repository using a normal distribution to generate 1B random rows.

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