A sort program that uses the hard disk as a temporary workspace. In the early days of computing, tape drives were used as work drives. Contrast with internal sort. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ...

Many embedded system applications involve storing and querying large datasets. Existing research in this area has focused on adapting and applying conventional database algorithms to embedded devices.

We start with how sorting algorithms work. Although you don’t need to implement sorting algorithms yourself, it’s useful to know how they work internally. You can skip to the next section if you just ...