Thinking about this a bit more, there's really two factors you have to balance when setting these systems up: event volume and cardinality. It feels like Honey

Thinking about this a bit more, there's really two factors you have to balance when setting these systems up: event volume and cardinality. It feels like Honeycomb basically has you pre-pay for cardinality. Every field you add is equally efficient at storing data regardless of type or possible values (well, probably table compression helps some), and the event size is not a factor in billing(?). Since there's no pre-calculated aggregation, you bear the full cost of every event.