Many time series use cases need to store UUID or GUID. For now, UUID is saved as string data type, which contributes to 4-5 times disk usage higher than UUID would actually need.
Adding the UUID data type (128-bit) will improve a lot on saving disk space.
Summary
Many time series use cases need to store UUID or GUID. For now, UUID is saved as string data type, which contributes to 4-5 times disk usage higher than UUID would actually need.
Adding the UUID data type (128-bit) will improve a lot on saving disk space.
Expected outcome
WIP: https://github.com/questdb/questdb/pull/2769