alt Hacker NewsThe best way to store information depends on how you intend to use (query) it.
The query itself represents information. If you can anticipate 100% of the ways in which you intend to query the information (no surprises), I'd argue there might be an ideal way to store it.
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alphazard • today at 7:43 PM
This is exactly right, and the article is clickbait junk.
Given the domain name, I was expecting something about the physics of information storage, and some interesting law of nature. Instead, the article is a bad introduction to data structures.
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This line of thought works for storage in isolation, but does not hold up if write speed is a concern.