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Google Cloud database execs said humans will not use data platforms in three to five years, with agents doing the work instead. The company is investing in inexact queries, AI-native infrastructure, and a knowledge catalog that aggregates structured and unstructured data for LLM context.

Sneha Gullapalli, a Principal Software Engineer at Dell Technologies, explains how high cardinality can break time-series databases. The post compares stores like InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, and Prometheus on cardinality handling. Engineers must evaluate schema design and indexing strategies before scaling to avoid performance degradation.
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