Alan Woodward

Alan Woodward

Articles by Alan Woodward
LuceneIndex Data

How DocValuesSkippers in Lucene 10 make range queries faster without doubling your storage

DocValuesSkippers add block-level skipping to Lucene DocValues fields, speeding up range queries on sorted or insert-ordered indexes with less than 0.1% storage overhead.

Alan Woodward
Inside Elastic

How Elasticsearch cut metrics storage by 41% by dropping sequence numbers after replication

Find out how Elasticsearch trims sequence numbers at merge time to cut TSDS storage by 41%, what you give up, and why it's safe for metrics workloads.

Francisco Fernández Castaño