<story><title>It’s About Time for Time Series Databases</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/25/time-time-series-databases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kodablah</author><text>Sorry to leave the technical detail part real quick. But is anyone else concerned about using a DB solely from a company built specifically around that DB? After Rethink DB (sustainability issue) and Foundation DB (bought and shuttered&amp;#x2F;hidden) and Riak (admittedly haven&amp;#x27;t kept up but I saw [0]), I am wary of using any DB that is not built by a large community or is not built as a non-core project from a large tech company. Sorry TimescaleDB, I see you have raised a decent amount of funding, but I have to choose my DBs w&amp;#x2F; trepidation these days.&lt;p&gt;0 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;will_the_last_person_at_basho_get_the_lights_oh_too_late&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;will_the_last_perso...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lbruder</author><text>We use a combination of SQLite and a sharding frontend service. One SQLite database file per device, one table per sensor, table contents are timestamp and measured value. As simple as it gets, easy to scale, and damn fast.&lt;p&gt;But try telling people you&amp;#x27;re using SQLite to store critical data...</text></comment>
<story><title>It’s About Time for Time Series Databases</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/01/25/time-time-series-databases/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kodablah</author><text>Sorry to leave the technical detail part real quick. But is anyone else concerned about using a DB solely from a company built specifically around that DB? After Rethink DB (sustainability issue) and Foundation DB (bought and shuttered&amp;#x2F;hidden) and Riak (admittedly haven&amp;#x27;t kept up but I saw [0]), I am wary of using any DB that is not built by a large community or is not built as a non-core project from a large tech company. Sorry TimescaleDB, I see you have raised a decent amount of funding, but I have to choose my DBs w&amp;#x2F; trepidation these days.&lt;p&gt;0 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;will_the_last_person_at_basho_get_the_lights_oh_too_late&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;will_the_last_perso...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>siculars</author><text>Riak the database survives Basho the company. All assets (IP) were bought by bet365 (A large Basho customer) and made open source. Development continues.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#x2F;former Basho employee.</text></comment>