Re:Terark (YC W17) is a profitable database compression comp...
by scott00 on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:27AM
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Is the compression geared towards any particular type of data? Seems like compression that would work well on, say, blog posts, may not work as well on, say, tick-level data from a stock exchange.
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Re:Terark (YC W17) is a profitable database compression comp...
by rockeetterark on Sunday June 25, 2017 @11:04AM
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It works, but it's not the best scenario for us. Scenarios with financial data are most likely sequential read (gimme all data for the last 50 trading days) and write heavy (tick-level write). We're blowing away the rest of the pack when you have a huge haystack and you're looking for the needle in it, that's where you're gonna get a 200x boost in performance with using Terark.