Base 36 — Why & How its important ?
Most of us are familiar with Binary, Octal, Decimal, Hexadecimal numbering system. Today lets learn about Base 36 number system and why its so cool.
What is Base 36 ?
Binary consists of values 0 and 1
Decimal : 0 to 9
Octal : 0 to 7
Hex : 0 to 9 and A to F
Base 36 : (hexatridecimal) 0 to 9 and A to Z
Number 1000 is stored following way in
Binary = 1111101000
Decimal = 1000
Hex= 3E8
Base 36 = RS
Why Base 36?
Simple answer to “Save Space”.
How it saves space ?
An epoch time stamp 1602374487561 (14 characters long) will be converted to 8 character long Base 36 string “kg4cebk9”
Example : Processing 1 billion rows each hour for a day
Billion rows x 14 = 14 billion bytes = 14 GB x 24 hrs = 336 GB
Billion rows x 8 = 8 billion bytes = 8 GB x 24 hrs = 192 GB
There is a direct saving of 40% in storage.
Storage is cheap, but when data grows exponentially ? If the same has to be stored on Cloud like AWS S3 ?
