1. A method for implementing records in a computing system, comprising: establishing two or more in-memory buffers; distributing records across the two or more in-memory buffers; identifying a cross-sectional interval for the two or more in-memory buffers, the cross-sectional interval based upon a temporal period, the cross-section intervals corresponding to a subset of zero or more records for each of the two or more in-memory buffers, the subset of zero or more records for each of the two or more in-memory buffers being temporally ordered; and writing the subset of zero or more records for each of the two or more in-memory buffers to the persistent storage medium, wherein records written to the persistent storage medium are not sequentially ordered as an entire group.