Time Series for relational people

2022

TL; DR

The last few years have seen the rise of time series databases, specialized for data that has a time attribute. Join me to see what a time series database is, how it works and how you can use it in your projects.

Session Details

Relational databases have been around for 40 years and they are a great choice for most data management needs. On the other hand, telemetry data has some properties that make it not exactly a great fit for a relational database. The last few years have seen the rise of time series databases, specialized for data that has a time attribute. Join me to see what a time series database is, how it works and how you can use it in your projects. I will demonstrate how this technology enables new possibilities and overcomes some limitations of relational databases. Are you working with IOT telemetry data or performance metrics? This is the session for you!

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