Time Series, the new shiny?
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Time Series, the new shiny?
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Re: Time Series, the new shiny?
#2Poses the question
So what’s the big deal? People have been recording
temporally oriented data since we could chisel on tablets.
Re: Time Series, the new shiny?
#3Poses the question So what’s the big deal? People have been recording temporally oriented data since we could chisel on tablets. Never answers it, but instead explains how Riak handles large time series. Certainly interesting, but I would like an answer to this question, as I don't understand the big deal.
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Re: Time Series, the new shiny?
#4Poses the question So what’s the big deal? People have been recording temporally oriented data since we could chisel on tablets. Never answers it, but instead explains how Riak handles large time series. Certainly interesting, but I would like an answer to this question, as I don't understand the big deal.
Immediately following the part you quote (my emphasis)
Well, as it turns out, thanks to the software-eating-
the-world thing and the Internet of Things we happen to be
amassing *vast quantities* of all sorts of data [...] The
demand for systems that are capable of storing and
retrieving temporal data on an *ever increasing scale*
necessitates systems that are specifically designed for
this purpose.
Re: Time Series, the new shiny?
#5Poses the question So what’s the big deal? People have been recording temporally oriented data since we could chisel on tablets. Never answers it, but instead explains how Riak handles large time series. Certainly interesting, but I would like an answer to this question, as I don't understand the big deal.
I think the big deal is allegedly "we now have so much data that we have a use for distributed databases with high performance", which allows them to go on and say "and our big deal is that we've built a high-performance distributed database tuned especially for time series".
I only noticed it because I was shocked that there was an actual comprehensible value proposition in a blogpost about a NoSQL product.
Re: Time Series, the new shiny?
#6I've always found it quite curious that computer human interfaces have always focused on the noun/verb proposition of describing data, and not the time/place. Time is the only true constant in the universe, and yet computers are set up to track and control it, seemingly, as a second thought.
Imagine if instead of having files/folders to (teach,confuse) Grandma, we simply had a time-based system of references. If Time was a principle unit of information that a user was required to understand as an abstract concept, I feel that it would result in far better user interfaces.
We can see this in the Music-making world, where Time is the most significant domain over which a Musician exerts control. A DAW-like interface for managing events seems to me to be quite intuitive - for so many other non-musical applications - that its almost extraordinary that someone hasn't built an email system, or accounting system, or a graphical-design system, of applications, oriented around this aspect. (Of course, they are out there - but it seems that Time management makes the dividing line between "professional" and "dilettante" users rather thick...)
Re: Time Series, the new shiny?
#7Poses the question So what’s the big deal? People have been recording temporally oriented data since we could chisel on tablets. Never answers it, but instead explains how Riak handles large time series. Certainly interesting, but I would like an answer to this question, as I don't understand the big deal.
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Re: Time Series, the new shiny?
#8I've always found it quite curious that computer human interfaces have always focused on the noun/verb proposition of describing data, and not the time/place. Time is the only true constant in the universe, and yet computers are set up to track and control it, seemingly, as a second thought. Imagine if instead of having files/folders to (teach,confuse) Grandma, we simply had a time-based system of references. If Time…
> Imagine if instead of having files/folders to (teach,confuse) Grandma, we simply had a time-based system of references. If Time was a principle unit of information that a user was required to understand as an abstract concept, I feel that it would result in far better user interfaces.
How would it be easier when I, let alone my Grandma, can't remember if I did something last week or the week before last? It seems it puts a higher cognitive load on the user.
Re: Time Series, the new shiny?
#9In terms of getting data into RiakTS, would streaming something through Kafka be an option for instance?
Re: Time Series, the new shiny?
#10> Riak uses the SHA hash as its distribution mechanism and divides the output range of the SHA hash evenly amongst participating nodes in the cluster.
Wait, Riak uses SHA as distribution hash? Why use a cryptographic hash for distribution and not something like Murmur3, if you're talking about high-performant[0] ?
[0] http://blog.reverberate.org/2012/01/state-of-hash-functions-...