Amazon Timestream
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Section titled “Concept”Amazon Timestream is a time-series database, built for storing measurements that arrive over time. Time-series data means every measurement has a time attached to it, such as the temperature every minute. Such data arrives very fast and in large amounts, and questions are asked over time ranges. Timestream comes in two types: Timestream for LiveAnalytics and Timestream for InfluxDB. In the second one, AWS runs the popular open-source InfluxDB for you as a managed service.
Simple example
Section titled “Simple example”A hospital patient’s chart, where temperature and blood pressure are written down every hour.
Why it’s needed
Section titled “Why it’s needed”Sensors, servers and apps send data every second. Its job is to store such data quickly and answer questions like “what was the average over the last hour?”
Where it’s used
Section titled “Where it’s used”Data from IoT sensors, the history of servers’ CPU usage, and stock market prices.
Azure equivalent
Section titled “Azure equivalent”Azure Data Explorer
Learn more
Section titled “Learn more”For details and the latest information, see the official documentation: