<p>No. </p>

<p>The particular question that you refer to should belong to either R or to the databases. The reason why it's not a generic high performance question is because the capabilities to deal with large data sets are very different in different platforms. What may work for R will not necessarily work fro SAS. This depends on the platform architecture, availability of drivers, native vs. ODBC/JDBC etc. </p>

<p>If there was not "R" in question then this would belong to databases or other IT domain, perhaps, SO. </p>
