Pilosa was built for high cardinality data, so queries on unique numeric values would still be fast. Translating quantitative data to a categorical form fits Pi

Pilosa was built for high cardinality data, so queries on unique numeric values would still be fast. Translating quantitative data to a categorical form fits Pilosa’s data model better, so the index would be more powerful. We have explored a few basic techniques for this, which you can read about here: https://www.pilosa.com/use-cases/taming-transportation-data/ https://www.pilosa.com/use-cases/taming-transportation-data/