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		samsk on July 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Launch HN: QuestDB (YC S20) – Fast open source tim... Does it supports some kind of compression ? That's very important when storing billions of events.

mpsq on July 28, 2020 [–]

Not yet but this is on the roadmap. In the meantime you could use a filesystem that supports compression such as ZFS or brtfs. The data is column orientated, this means that compression would be super efficient.

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