You might have noticed that we didn't release QuasarDB 3.9.0 on May 4th, 2020, as our previous release schedule would have commanded.
Since the beginning of the year, QuasarDB's user base grew faster than we anticipated, creating many pain points in our release process, especially the QA phase.
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In QuasarDB 3.5 we introduced ASOF joins. If you're new to timeseries databases, you may be confused about what ASOF joins are, and how useful they are.
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Timeseries data = ingestion challenges
If there’s one thing that’s hard when managing timeseries data is just the sheer amount of it. Timeseries data has volume built-in because it’s cumulative. You don’t want a single picture: you want the whole movie!
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This post is part of a series about the challenges behind database performance and how to accurately assess it.
Why compression matters so much for timeseries data
Whatever database engine you are using, efficient disk storage is always welcomed. When your 10 GiB become 100 GiB once in the database, that’s never a nice thing!
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This post is part of a series about the challenges behind database performance and how to accurately assess it.
You don’t care about performance
When we started selling QuasarDB, we focused on its performance advantages and touted how great they were. The logic behind that was obvious: we were very strong in this area; thus we should bring the battle to where we are strong!
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This post is part of a series about the challenges behind database performance and how to accurately assess it.
Purpose of an ingress benchmark
When evaluating a timeseries database management system (later referred as TSDBMS or TSDB), one important dimension is the ingress speed (a.k.a. insertion or ingestion), that is, how fast the database can store new data points.
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The security debacle. As a database user or administrator, you may have learnt that MongoDB recently took a very serious hit. A hit of over 28,000 hacked installs.
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At first an interrogation - At the beginning, there was a question. Why are we waiting for machines to give us an answer? Why aren't we able to analyze everything in real time?
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