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Comment by iTokio

1 year ago

partitions are often used to drop old data in constant time.

They can also help to mitigate io issues if you use your insertion timestamp as the partition key and include it in your main queries.

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jashmatthews  1 year ago

Yeah the ULID/UUIDs which can be be partitioned by time in this way are AWESOME for these use cases.

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