Re: About the design and development of merge.

Hi, The Merge is functional on branch dev_merge and the related PR is on https://github.com/apache/incubator-iotdb/pull/258 . If you feel interested, feel free to give any advices or comments. Thanks Tian Jiang

Re: About the design and development of merge.

A1: Yes. However, in IoTDB queries, the order of chunks is not that important as a simple sort by startTime can make them ordered again once they are loaded into memory. A2: Yes, but not necessarily. We handle time series one by one to minimize the memory burden, but if memory is abundant, we

About the design and development of merge.

Greetings, Although the new storage engine is on-line, some old functionalities are lost, for example, merge. As you may have known, current storage engine consists of two kind of data files, sequential files and unsequential files. A data point of a specified timestamp, say, t0, may occur