Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

TimescaleDB

209
369
+ 1
44
TrailDB

2
17
+ 1
0
Add tool

TimescaleDB vs TrailDB: What are the differences?

TimescaleDB: Scalable time-series database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Purpose-built as a PostgreSQL extension. TimescaleDB is the only open-source time-series database that natively supports full-SQL at scale, combining the power, reliability, and ease-of-use of a relational database with the scalability typically seen in NoSQL databases; TrailDB: An efficient tool for storing and querying series of events, by AdRoll. TrailDB's secret sauce is data compression. It leverages predictability of time-based data to compress your data to a fraction of its original size. In contrast to traditional compression, you can query the encoded data directly, decompressing only the parts you need.

TimescaleDB and TrailDB belong to "Databases" category of the tech stack.

TimescaleDB and TrailDB are both open source tools. It seems that TimescaleDB with 7.28K GitHub stars and 385 forks on GitHub has more adoption than TrailDB with 962 GitHub stars and 64 GitHub forks.

Advice on TimescaleDB and TrailDB
Umair Iftikhar
Technical Architect at ERP Studio · | 3 upvotes · 433.3K views
Needs advice
on
CassandraCassandraDruidDruid
and
TimescaleDBTimescaleDB

Developing a solution that collects Telemetry Data from different devices, nearly 1000 devices minimum and maximum 12000. Each device is sending 2 packets in 1 second. This is time-series data, and this data definition and different reports are saved on PostgreSQL. Like Building information, maintenance records, etc. I want to know about the best solution. This data is required for Math and ML to run different algorithms. Also, data is raw without definitions and information stored in PostgreSQL. Initially, I went with TimescaleDB due to PostgreSQL support, but to increase in sites, I started facing many issues with timescale DB in terms of flexibility of storing data.

My major requirement is also the replication of the database for reporting and different purposes. You may also suggest other options other than Druid and Cassandra. But an open source solution is appreciated.

See more
Replies (1)
Recommends
on
MongoDBMongoDB

Hi Umair, Did you try MongoDB. We are using MongoDB on a production environment and collecting data from devices like your scenario. We have a MongoDB cluster with three replicas. Data from devices are being written to the master node and real-time dashboard UI is using the secondary nodes for read operations. With this setup write operations are not affected by read operations too.

See more
Needs advice
on
InfluxDBInfluxDBMongoDBMongoDB
and
TimescaleDBTimescaleDB

We are building an IOT service with heavy write throughput and fewer reads (we need downsampling records). We prefer to have good reliability when comes to data and prefer to have data retention based on policies.

So, we are looking for what is the best underlying DB for ingesting a lot of data and do queries easily

See more
Replies (3)
Yaron Lavi
Recommends
on
PostgreSQLPostgreSQL

We had a similar challenge. We started with DynamoDB, Timescale, and even InfluxDB and Mongo - to eventually settle with PostgreSQL. Assuming the inbound data pipeline in queued (for example, Kinesis/Kafka -> S3 -> and some Lambda functions), PostgreSQL gave us a We had a similar challenge. We started with DynamoDB, Timescale and even InfluxDB and Mongo - to eventually settle with PostgreSQL. Assuming the inbound data pipeline in queued (for example, Kinesis/Kafka -> S3 -> and some Lambda functions), PostgreSQL gave us better performance by far.

See more
Recommends
on
DruidDruid

Druid is amazing for this use case and is a cloud-native solution that can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure or on Kubernetes. - Easy to scale horizontally - Column Oriented Database - SQL to query data - Streaming and Batch Ingestion - Native search indexes It has feature to work as TimeSeriesDB, Datawarehouse, and has Time-optimized partitioning.

See more
Ankit Malik
Software Developer at CloudCover · | 3 upvotes · 320.5K views
Recommends
on
Google BigQueryGoogle BigQuery

if you want to find a serverless solution with capability of a lot of storage and SQL kind of capability then google bigquery is the best solution for that.

See more
Decisions about TimescaleDB and TrailDB
Benoit Larroque
Principal Engineer at Sqreen · | 2 upvotes · 133.1K views

I chose TimescaleDB because to be the backend system of our production monitoring system. We needed to be able to keep track of multiple high cardinality dimensions.

The drawbacks of this decision are our monitoring system is a bit more ad hoc than it used to (New Relic Insights)

We are combining this with Grafana for display and Telegraf for data collection

See more
Get Advice from developers at your company using StackShare Enterprise. Sign up for StackShare Enterprise.
Learn More
Pros of TimescaleDB
Pros of TrailDB
  • 9
    Open source
  • 8
    Easy Query Language
  • 7
    Time-series data analysis
  • 5
    Established postgresql API and support
  • 4
    Reliable
  • 2
    Paid support for automatic Retention Policy
  • 2
    Chunk-based compression
  • 2
    Postgres integration
  • 2
    High-performance
  • 2
    Fast and scalable
  • 1
    Case studies
    Be the first to leave a pro

    Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions

    Cons of TimescaleDB
    Cons of TrailDB
    • 5
      Licensing issues when running on managed databases
      Be the first to leave a con

      Sign up to add or upvote consMake informed product decisions

      What is TimescaleDB?

      TimescaleDB: An open-source database built for analyzing time-series data with the power and convenience of SQL — on premise, at the edge, or in the cloud.

      What is TrailDB?

      TrailDB's secret sauce is data compression. It leverages predictability of time-based data to compress your data to a fraction of its original size. In contrast to traditional compression, you can query the encoded data directly, decompressing only the parts you need.

      Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!

      What companies use TimescaleDB?
      What companies use TrailDB?
        No companies found
        See which teams inside your own company are using TimescaleDB or TrailDB.
        Sign up for StackShare EnterpriseLearn More

        Sign up to get full access to all the companiesMake informed product decisions

        What tools integrate with TimescaleDB?
        What tools integrate with TrailDB?
          No integrations found

          Sign up to get full access to all the tool integrationsMake informed product decisions

          Blog Posts

          What are some alternatives to TimescaleDB and TrailDB?
          InfluxDB
          InfluxDB is a scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics. It has a built-in HTTP API so you don't have to write any server side code to get up and running. InfluxDB is designed to be scalable, simple to install and manage, and fast to get data in and out.
          MongoDB
          MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
          Citus
          It's an extension to Postgres that distributes data and queries in a cluster of multiple machines. Its query engine parallelizes incoming SQL queries across these servers to enable human real-time (less than a second) responses on large datasets.
          Druid
          Druid is a distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store that is commonly used to power exploratory dashboards in multi-tenant environments. Druid excels as a data warehousing solution for fast aggregate queries on petabyte sized data sets. Druid supports a variety of flexible filters, exact calculations, approximate algorithms, and other useful calculations.
          PipelineDB
          PipelineDB is an open-source relational database that runs SQL queries continuously on streams, incrementally storing results in tables.
          See all alternatives