HEhenridf·Jul 3, 2020Submission
ZNG: Structured log format with in-line schemas
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An analytics database that puts JSON and relational tables on equal footing
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An analytics database that puts JSON and relational tables on equal footing
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesWe're still early in development, but the ZNG format is one we're working on for schema-less, semi-structured, zero-copy operations:
https://github.com/brimsec/zq/blob/master/zng/docs/spec.md#1...
We currently use this to store security log data, but think it's an interesting midpoint between having no schema at all vs requiring schema registries to do useful work.
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