Table 1.
Time and memory consumption when rarefying the Tara gene abundance matrix five times to 2.3 M counts per sample, from 139 M counts on average per sample
| Software (mode) | Runtime | Max. memory | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTK (memory) | 3:50 h | 140 Gb | successful |
| RTK (swap) | 3:30 h | 8.5 Gb | successful |
| R RTK (memory) | 3:30 h | 140 Gb | successful |
| R RTK (swap) | 3:05 h | 8.7 Gb | successful |
| QIIME | 21:50 h | 339 Gb | successful |
| vegan | – | 387 Gb | failed |
| mothur | 17:30 h | 262 Gb | successful |
Note: While RTK could return the rarefied data, mothur only reports diversity.