[madhouse]

* Why would you need a proprietary tool? * What if they get broken? I don't want to look at them raw anyway. * Text logs are easy to corrupt as well. Oh, append only? Well, you can do that with binary storage too.

And again, there is no need for proprietary tools at all. Everything I want to do is achievable with free software - so much so, that I use only such software in all my systems.

As for compressing - yeah, no. Please try compressing 100Gb of data and tell me the performance cost is nonexistent.

As for LogStash & ES: Guess what: their storage is binary.

Also note that my article explicitly said that the Journal is unfit for my use cases.