[rbranson]

No, wide events are quasi-relational. Read the literature please. I’ve never seen a structured log implementation that is anything remotely relational, it’s just a bunch of random junk thrown into a pile with maybe some common tags.

[esafak]

Can you expand? What makes the event relational; consistency of tags?

[jiggawatts]

Relational would be to not repeat yourself — written by jiggawatts on Hacker News, 2025 May.

It causes write amplification and slow queries. — written by jiggawatts on Hacker News, 2025 May.

Some would argue that it’s too hard to solve, but those same people are ingesting a petabyte of logs per hour, which is a bigger problem if you ask me. — written by jiggawatts on Hacker News, 2025 May.

[polynomial]

This seems related to normalization, just going by your example.