Does anyone know what is the leading time-series database people use today? Like, eg, bar / tick data.
(I use PostgreSQL, due to my ignorance.)
(I use PostgreSQL, due to my ignorance.)
See this recent timescaledb post (since you mentioned Postgres) which goes over an array of techniques used in column-store databases that general-purpose compressors on a csv file full of data would not be able to match:
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compressio... discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21412596
InfluxDB is great for server usage stats though.
We didn't really have a need for transactions because we were just recording a bunch of sensor data from oil and gas wells from the around the world and then running computations and then displaying and alerting on the results.