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Always-on Time-Series Database: Keeping Up Where There's No Way to Catch Up.

An interview on time-series database design with founder and chief technology officer of the Circonus organization for Internet of Things telemetry Theo Schlossnagel and applied scientist Chris McCubbin is presented. Other topics of conversation include economic incentives to create a custom databas...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 64; no. 7; pp. 50 - 57
Main Authors: Schlossnagle, Theo, Sheehy, Justin, McCubbin, Chris
Format: Interview
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2021
Subjects:
Database design
Schlossnagel, Theo
McCubbin, Chris
Configuration management
Database management software
Time series analysis
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:An interview on time-series database design with founder and chief technology officer of the Circonus organization for Internet of Things telemetry Theo Schlossnagel and applied scientist Chris McCubbin is presented. Other topics of conversation include economic incentives to create a custom database, the merits of open source databases, and configuration of software parameters to induce desired performance characteristics.