One Billion Rows Challenge

A couple of years ago I found an interesting programming challenge that includes reading a lot of data and calculating aggregates on them.&#xA;It&rsquo;s called the &ldquo;One Billion Rows Challenge&rdquo; or 1brc for short.&#xA;I decided to take on the challenge to see how far I could get and I&rsquo;d like to introduce others to it because I had fun participating. &#xA; The challenge &#xA; As…