My personal opinion is that they should have done a log linear histogram which solves the problems you mention (with other trade offs) but to me the big news wa

My personal opinion is that they should have done a log linear histogram which solves the problems you mention (with other trade offs) but to me the big news was making the db flexible enough to have that data type. Leaving the world of single numeric type for each datum will influence the next generation of open source metrics db.