Make the edge storage more columnar to reduce memory usage #1651

Job	Run time
Rust format check / rust-format-check	18s
Run Rust storage tests / Rust Tests (macos-latest)	7m 51s
Run benchmarks / Rust Benchmark (ubuntu-latest)	27m 2s
Run Rust storage tests / Rust Tests (ubuntu-latest)	12m 39s
Run Rust tests / Doc tests (ubuntu-latest)	5m 1s
Run Python tests / select-strategy	1s
Run Rust storage tests / Rust Tests (windows-latest)	28m 59s
Run Rust tests / Rust Tests (macos-latest)	4m 45s
Run Rust tests / Rust Tests (ubuntu-latest)	6m 14s
Run Rust tests / Rust Tests (windows-latest)	15m 44s
Run Python tests / Python Tests (3.8, macos-latest)	8m 58s
Run Python tests / Python Tests (3.8, ubuntu-latest)	10m 26s
Run Python tests / Python Tests (3.8, windows-latest)	23m 34s
Run Python tests / Python Tests (3.12, macos-latest)	9m 58s
Run Python tests / Python Tests (3.12, ubuntu-latest)	10m 38s
Run Python tests / Python Tests (3.12, windows-latest)	23m 44s
	3h 15m 52s

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