近日，一篇文章披露，Oracle 公司一项关于高速排序方法的专利已经到期，这意味着开源数据库可以自由使用这一算法。该排序算法的发明者 Mark Callaghan 指出，这种诞生于 20 年前的技术，能够显著加速对相似数据的排序过程，有望让数据库系统在性能和效率上实现进一步提升。 这项编号为 US7680791B2 的专利于 2010 年授予 Oracle ...

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