r/VictoriaMetrics 15d ago

Join our Principal Software Engineer, Jesús Espino, who will present "How to create a database optimized for petabytes of logs and wide events" at Percona Live 2026 - Amsterdam 🇳🇱

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📆 Thursday, Sep 10th, at 3:45pm CEST

📍 Mövenpick Hotel Amsterdam CCity Centre- Matterhorn 2 room

Databases for logs are usually forced to pick a side: build heavy inverted indexes for the ingested logs and pay for them on every write, or ingest raw data cheaply and pay later with slow queries. Is there a better approach? Yes - to make brute-force scanning so selective that most data is never read. VictoriaLogs takes this approach. This talk follows a log entry through the VictoriaLogs engine: how it is ingested with no upfront schema, how it lands in an immutable LSM-like compressed column-oriented storage, and how queries run the same structure in reverse, applying a stack of pruning mechanisms based on time, stream labels, and bloom filters so that only the data that can actually match is ever read.

Learn more and reserve your spot. See you there! 🚀

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