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by mdwaud 59 days ago
The "why should I care" is about 3/4 of the way down the page:

> None of these numbers are exact, but the structural gap is clear: a handful of nodes costing roughly $560/month versus $10,000-20,000/month for a managed service at the same scale. As we explained earlier, it’s practical to operate OpenData Timeseries yourself and fully realize these massive cost savings since it isn’t a traditional distributed database that manages partitioned and replicated state.

It doesn't look 100% turn-key, but those are compelling numbers.

2 comments

Good call out, updated the intro with a summary of the cost benefit. Thanks for the feedback!
Good point, a tl;dr is probably worthwhile.

It's definitely not quite turn key just yet but we've been dogfooding it in production against a moderate metrics use case (~30k samples/s) and have it hooked up to grafana (you just configure a prometheus source and point to your deployed URL). We run it on a single node with no replicas ;)