Re: Time Series on Postgres (HOWTO?)

I think you want to look at kdb, onetick, and LIM (those are
commercial). or potentially mongoDB where you could probably store a
compressed ts directly in the db if you want.

If you're not going to store each observation as a row, then why use a
db at all.  why not stick to flat files?

-Whit


On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:41 PM, bubba postgres
<bubba.postgres@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been googling, but haven't found a good answer to what I should do if I
> want to store time series in Postgres.
> My current solution is store serialized (compressed) blobs of data.
> (So for example store 1 day worth of 1 minute samples (~1440 samples) stored
> as one row in a bytea. (Plus meta data)
> It would be nice if I could use 1 sample per column,(because updating
> individual columns/samples is clear to me) but postgres doesn't compress the
> row (which is bad because of high amount of repetitive data.. Easily 10X
> bigger.
>
> I've been considering a Double[] array, which would get compressed, but
> before I start down that path (I suppose I need to make some storedprocs to
> update individual samples), has anyone built anything like this? Any open
> source projects I should look at?
>
> Thanks.
>