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by Licenser 3141 days ago
28 billion data points in 50 gigabytes are not impressive for time series use. That's nearly 2 bytes per data point, many time series databases achieve 1 or less byte per data point.
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It's not a point, it's an entire row of data with dozens of columns and JSON.

Even if the data took twice as much space, it's still worth it to have everything in a single data warehouse with easy joins and the full expressiveness of SQL.