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Anthony Woods 7 Jan 2015
As we begin to develop the raintank platform, we’ve started to play with numerous solutions for time series databases including MongoDB, OpenTSDB, Graphite, and even MySQL. The more generic database solutions, MongoDB and MySQL, were quickly ruled out as viable options. Though they are both great tools, they are not suited to the narrow use case of large scale time-series data, which is of particular interest to us. OpenTSDB showed a lot of promise, but we found the complexity of keeping a Hadoop cluster running not worth the rewards.
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