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overfeedtoday at 8:22 AM1 replyview on HN

> Now I'm really curious. What field are you in that ndjson files of that size are common?

I'm not OP,but structured JSON logs can easily result in humongous ndjson files, even with a modest fleet of servers over a not-very-long period of time.


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messetoday at 8:24 AM

So what's the use case for keeping them in that format rather than something more easily indexed and queryable?

I'd probably just shove it all into Postgres, but even a multi terabyte SQLite database seems more reasonable.

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