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Amazon Timestream – Fast, scalable, fully managed time series database

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Re: Amazon Timestream – Fast, scalable, fully managed time series database

#3
Nice to see, this has felt like a gap in cloud offerings for a while... and the open source options have difficulties.

From the little that was said, going to guess this uses something like Beringei (https://code.fb.com/core-data/beringei-a-high-performance-ti...) under the hood

Re: Amazon Timestream – Fast, scalable, fully managed time series database

#4
Seems positioned to compete with Azure Data Explorer (MSFT's log/time series optimized service). I know Azure runs a lot of services on top of Data Explorer (previously called Kusto) I wonder if this is a true internal battle tested product or a me-too offering.

Re: Amazon Timestream – Fast, scalable, fully managed time series database

#9
Honest question: when dealing with time-series data, do you actually need every data point? Is that level of granularity really necessary?

IMO, it makes way more sense to decide the aggregations you want ahead of time (e.g. "SELECT customer, sum(value) FROM purchases GROUP BY customer"). That way, you deal with substantially less data and everything becomes a whole lot simpler.

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