<p>The flat file is around 20 GB:<br><a href="https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/2961802/2042021/49de7f86-89cc-11e3-889c-5c2167b5ede2.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/2961802/2042021/49de7f86-89cc-11e3-889c-5c2167b5ede2.png" alt="image" style="max-width:100%;"></a><br>
My OS can support 20 GB files, its Windows Server 2008 R2. </p>
<p>I know flat nodes is a hindrance for small datasets, I was just testing this function for the coming task of loading the whole world. </p>
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