Indexing the Data Lake for Online Point Queries

Companies like Spotify need vast quantities of data accessible at low latency for online services and, increasingly, AI Agents acting on behalf of users. Online services — such as portals and personalization features that use or display a user's listening history — need to look up and paginate through per-user data at interactive speeds. AI Agents answering questions like, "what was I listening to last summer?" need to retrieve a user's data quickly so they can reason over it