A new big data structure for streaming counters – bit length encoding

(Justin Swanhart) One of the challenges of big data is that it is, well, big. Computers are optimized for math on 64 bits or less. Any bigger, and extra steps have to be taken to work with the data which is very expensive. This is why a BIGINT is 64 bits. In MySQL DECIMAL can store more than 64 bit

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