The World Happiness dataset at 6.04 MB is well-suited for single-node deployment; distributed infrastructure would introduce unnecessary operational overhead for a footprint this compact. Row density of 7,725.8 bytes indicates moderately rich data (likely multiple numeric and text fields per record), leaving meaningful compression opportunity—particularly if the 5 tables contain repeated categorical values or verbose text fields. At current scale, this dataset remains several orders of magnitude below typical distributed thresholds (which generally activate in the multi-gigabyte range); growth would need to exceed 100x before infrastructure changes become justified. Focus optimization efforts on query patterns and indexing strategy rather than architectural redesign.