Tag
columnar-storage
- Jul 6, 2026 Storing Traces: Two Access Patterns That Cannot Share One Index Why a trace store must support both point lookup by trace identifier and time-range search by service, how indexes serve each, and where retention and cost force the two apart. observability
- Oct 31, 2024 Star Schemas and the Cost of Normalizing a Dimension What denormalizing a dimension into one wide table buys at query time, what it costs in update work, and why snowflaking usually loses on columnar storage. data engineering