The iris dataset at 4.73 MB is well below any practical storage threshold and requires no distributed infrastructure—single-node deployment is optimal. At 31.5 KB per row, the dataset's density is moderate, indicating limited compression opportunity since the footprint is already negligible relative to modern hardware capacity. This scale presents no infrastructure inflection point; costs are dominated by compute and API calls rather than storage, making optimization efforts better directed toward query efficiency and request batching than toward compression or distributed systems.