Design a System for Sorting Large Data Sets — System Design Interview Practice
Design a system to efficiently sort datasets that are too large to fit in memory. Work through the requirements, architecture trade-offs, and an interactive design review.
Requirements and concepts to consider
- Sort datasets larger than available memoryRequirement
- Support different data typesRequirement
- Efficient disk I/O operationsRequirement
- Parallel processing supportRequirement
- Handle terabytes of dataRequirement
- Minimize time complexityRequirement
- Support custom sorting keysRequirement
- sortingConcept to explore
- algorithmsConcept to explore
- data processingConcept to explore
- external memoryConcept to explore
- distributedConcept to explore