The February 2025 white paper outlines New Relic’s NRDB architecture, purpose-built for real-time observability in cloud-native environments. Evolving from Dremel-inspired roots, NRDB delivers sub-second query performance, multi-tenant scalability, and schema-less ingestion. Key innovations include columnar archive file formats, Bloom filter-based query routing, and cellular architecture for fault isolation and elastic scaling. The platform integrates mutable, immutable, and external data via connector-based frameworks and supports a unified SQL-like query language across dashboards, APIs, and alerting systems—enabling fast, resilient, and cost-efficient analytics at enterprise scale.

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