Time series databases are extremely good at compression, and most use an interesting trick called De...

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Time series databases are extremely good at compression, and most use an interesting trick called Delta of Delta compression. Here's how it works... In time series data, values are typically recorded at regular intervals. Instead of storing the full 64-bit timestamp for each

Time series databases are extremely good at compression, and most use an interesting trick called Delta of Delta compression. Here's how it works... In time series data, values are typically recorded at regular intervals. Instead of storing the full 64-bit timestamp for each

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