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@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ Requirements
 * Delete ranges of points from any number of timeseries (that should reflect in disk space usage)
 * querying should support one or more timeseries (possibly with regex to match on)
 
+New Requirements
+----------------
+* Easy to backup and restore
+* Large time range queries with one column ?
+* Optimize for HDD access ?
+* What are the common use cases that we should optimize for ?
+
 Modules
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