[VIDEO] Tardigrade Thursday: How a Time-Series Database Contributes to a Decentralized Cloud Object Storage Platform

Its Thursday! If you missed our talk today at the virtual Time Series Summit, you are in for a treat courtesy of the wonderful people at MediaOps! The event organizers have generously allowed for sharing of the video – link is below, along with a few bulleted highlights from the talk.

Special thanks to our wonderful partner InfluxDB.com

MediaOps Virtual Events : John Gleeson and Benjamin Sirb

How a Time-Series Database Contributes to a Decentralized Cloud Object Storage Platform…

Storj Labs uses blockchain technology and a distributed network to provide storage at lower costs than cloud providers. By equipping their customers with fast, secure and fully distributed storage, their users no longer need to manage their infrastructure. The Storj platform enables applications to store and share data across a distributed network with end-to-end encryption. Discover how InfluxDB is a component to Storj’s Tardigrade service and workflows.

screenshot, speech video

  • A brief primer on Storj
  • Business need for time series data
  • We succeed or fail based on the data
  • Our analytics approach
  • What success looks like

The Challenge: Managing Series Cardinality

  • Framing the project
  • Launched with goal of maximum visibility
  • Which meant saving all the data
  • Which led to massive database bloat
  • Series explosion
  • Start filtering out certain measurements to prevent massive DB size
  • ID’s as tags rather than fields
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