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by shakkhar 2459 days ago
It is very deceptive to say that you can _store_ timeseries data in "Postgres ... Redis or Cassandra" so the nature of the data should not be used to categorize databases. You can "store" data in /dev/null if you never have to do anything with the data.

> I'm not sure what your point is.

My point is very simple - there is a category of databases widely accepted as "timeseries database", and they deserve a place in any conversation about "types of databases".

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What category? The examples you used are formally relational databases. We can certainly talk about common use-cases for certain specific database vendors and products but that's not the same as the underlying type.

For example, here's Pinterest handling time-series data on Hbase: https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/pinalyticsdb-a-time...

There's a big difference and muddying the definitions with marketing jargon ends up causing too much confusion in this industry.