Efficiently storing 7.300.000.000 rows

Question

How would you tackle the following storage and retrieval problem?

Roughly 2.000.000 rows will be added each day (365 days/year) with the following information per ro

Answer 1

Your description of the read patterns is not sufficient. You'll need to describe what amounts of data will be retrieved, how often and how much deviation there will be in the queries.

This will allow you to consider doing compression on some of the columns.

Also consider archiving and partitioning.