Thread: Recommended reading for building time series databases?

Recommended reading for building time series databases?

L 25 pts 27 comments by ocharles Nov 19, 2014 databasesprogramming Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I'm interested in building a simple in-memory time series database, but I'm not really sure what the state of the art is here. I'm looking at having some basic aggregates over my series - sum's, min/max, mean, etc. I'm also interested in having different retention periods and granularity. Does anyon...

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