That&#x27;s great for unstructured data, like data with high cardinality on the dimensions. But for most real world metrics outside analytics, this isn&#x27;t necessary and a data model like prometheus makes more sense.
If I did the math right, even after compression elasticsearch uses 22 bytes per data point (23m points &#x2F; 508 megabyte) where prometheus uses about 2.5-3.5 bytes per data point.<p>Disclosure: Prometheus contributor here