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Advantages of Using Big Ends in Data Indexing

Big ends offer advantages over strings in terms of size, especially when dealing with millions of rows where the size difference becomes significant and can impact memory usage. Storing large primary keys in indexes can lead to increased memory consumption and inefficiencies, particularly in database systems like MySQL where every secondary index contains a copy of the primary key.

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