battle-tested indexing methods 3
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When your search has to hold up under real-world pressure, you stop shopping for buzzwords and start relying on methods that have survived countless production failures. These aren't theoretical approaches—they're the ones that kept queries fast when logs flooded in, when data skewed unexpectedly, and when hardware misbehaved. You learn to trust bitmap indexes for low-cardinality filters, B-trees for range scans, and inverted indexes for text, but only after you've watched them bend without bre…