Thanos and Cortex: A Comparison

The two products, Thanos and cortex, are very, very similar. Both use Prometheus TSTB to store the metrics data in the long-term storage. With Mimir, we have introduced a new compactor, which we call the split and merge compaction algorithm. We can shard the data in as many blocks as we want, overcoming the single block limitation or the single block index limitation. It's quite difficult, you know, to find big different shears.