The Controversy of the Transpose and the Same World

One of the things that we spent a lot of time doing was optimizing for this ability to transpose and to kind of treat rows and columns interchangeably. Having these kind of like short but really really fat or wide tables is not something that's extremely common in the kind of world of databases. We actually built a system that could handle hundreds of billions of columns just because there just aren't that many systems in the world that can handle that many columns.