The titanic dataset at 4.73 MB is well below any practical scale threshold and should remain on a single node; distributed infrastructure would introduce unnecessary operational overhead. Row density of 5309.6 bytes indicates moderate data width with likely text or categorical fields, suggesting 20–30% compression gains are achievable through standard columnar encoding without algorithmic trade-offs. This dataset will not approach infrastructure inflection points unless it grows 100–1000x; current deployment should prioritize simplicity and cost efficiency over horizontal scaling.