Labels or other predefined constants being useless, compressing them better is not going to win the argument. Have a look at the description and performance of

Labels or other predefined constants being useless, compressing them better is not going to win the argument. Have a look at the description and performance of a non-toy time series database published 10 years ago: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf Convenience of text and json is an argument, but performance??