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Performance issues when using `api/resources/filter_by_checksums`

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Description

On certain large purldb instances, when using the `api/resources/filter_by_checksums` endpoint via the scancode.io `map_deploy_to_develop` pipeline, the `match_to_purldb_resource` step is very slow and can take +30 hours to complete.

After debugging, we found that the two biggest reasons for the slowness are:

- Ordering of Resources, a lot of CPU time is spent ordering resources from a query
- Decoding large JSON fields, a lot of time is spent parsing JSON fields if they are too big, like the history field on Package

Immediate solutions that come to mind:

- Remove ordering for Resources
- Create proper History model for Package, expedient thing would be to empty history json field. Look into using `.only()` on queries.

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