Indexing the Data Lake for Online Point Queries

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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

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