Re:IoT on QuestDB
by frhack on Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:34AM
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Very interesting, but can anyone explain the underlying technology?
There are no free lunches.
Here we have sql join on time series data. Very cool, but is it really sustainable?
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Under the hood is a stack written from scratch without any dependencies - all libraries have been rewritten. It's in boring Java (zero-GC) and C++ for high performance components such as SIMD instructions. The idea being to provide massive performance and accessibility through SQL. IoT/monitoring being one of the use cases that work particularly well for questdb