Often confused with an Historian.
- Definition: A database optimized for storing, indexing, and querying time-stamped data, focusing on efficient data ingestion and retrieval of high-frequency, time-ordered data points.
TSDB (e.g., TimescaleDB, InfluxDB)
- Purpose: General-purpose, optimized for high-frequency, high-volume time-stamped data.
- Flexibility: Broad application across IoT, finance, monitoring, etc.
- Scalability: Distributed architecture for handling large datasets.
- Querying: Advanced querying capabilities with SQL-like languages.
- Examples: TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, Prometheus.