Alan Woodward

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

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

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.