QuestDB
Data
time series database
SHOW HN2023
53points
15comments
#1,039of 3,109 in 2023
Top 34%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
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2 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Execution: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Interesting architecture for time-series storage
From 2 comments
Thanks for the detailed reply, I was curious as well. How does this compare with InfluxDB? I was actually looking into a way to store my own financial data of US equities for…
doubleg72 on HN[One edit, adding one additional paragraph at the end] Note that I'm one of the co-founder of QuestDB, but let me try to be as objective and un-biased as possible. Under the…
nhourcard on HN
Congrats on the launch, playground idea is cool
From 1 comment
This is really cool -- congrats on the launch! Similarly, the team over at AuthZed has created a playground for SpiceDB[0], by using WebAssembly and Monaco. We debated for hours…
jzelinskie on HN
Objections
Public demo reportedly broken or limited to 1 second queries
From 3 comments
The demo does not work at all: https://github.com/questdb/questdb/issues/1525
zX41ZdbW on HNDemo does work, however it limits the execution to 1 second. And no database in the liked article does the query under 1 second.
olluk on HNSorry, but it does not work for 1.5 years already. Every time I check it does not work.
zX41ZdbW on HN
Less mature ecosystem and no compression yet
From 1 comment
[One edit, adding one additional paragraph at the end] Note that I'm one of the co-founder of QuestDB, but let me try to be as objective and un-biased as possible. Under the…
nhourcard on HN
Requests
Support for compression and dashboard tools like Metabase
From 1 comment
[One edit, adding one additional paragraph at the end] Note that I'm one of the co-founder of QuestDB, but let me try to be as objective and un-biased as possible. Under the…
nhourcard on HN
Questions
How it differs from InfluxDB and Timescale
From 3 comments
Reading your pitch here, i'd love to have a vague idea what questdb is and why I should care.
Cilvic on HNSo I guess it would be fair to say you compete with Timescale and Clickhouse as a timeseries database?
Wonnk13 on HNThanks for the detailed reply, I was curious as well. How does this compare with InfluxDB? I was actually looking into a way to store my own financial data of US equities for…
doubleg72 on HN
Whether data can be kept at full precision long term
From 2 comments
I was once in the market for time series databases, but all I could find required down sampling of older data. I don't know if this has changed, and to be fair I haven't been…
jmholla on HNYes. We're pretty good with large volumes of data. Eventually all local drives fill up though. When ingesting data we partition data by time. By default we partition by day. This…
amunra__ on HN
Alternatives named
TimescaleDB
From 1 comment
So I guess it would be fair to say you compete with Timescale and Clickhouse as a timeseries database?
Wonnk13 on HN
ClickHouse
From 2 comments
So I guess it would be fair to say you compete with Timescale and Clickhouse as a timeseries database?
Wonnk13 on HNyes correct - although Clickhouse is more of an OLAP database. Timescale is built on top of Postgres, while QuestDB is built from scratch with Postgres wire compatibility. You…
nhourcard on HN
InfluxDB
From 2 comments
Thanks for the detailed reply, I was curious as well. How does this compare with InfluxDB? I was actually looking into a way to store my own financial data of US equities for…
doubleg72 on HN[One edit, adding one additional paragraph at the end] Note that I'm one of the co-founder of QuestDB, but let me try to be as objective and un-biased as possible. Under the…
nhourcard on HN