What do you use when you have to store high cardinality metrics?

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InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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  1. promscale

    Discontinued [DEPRECATED] Promscale is a unified metric and trace observability backend for Prometheus, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry built on PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB.

    Oh wow, I browsed the project just a few weeks ago, didn't see it then. I see the deprecation is recent (https://github.com/timescale/promscale/issues/1836)

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. postgresql-topn

    TopN is an open source PostgreSQL extension that returns the top values in a database according to some criteria

    I had a reporting system where the data was produced by a batch system. I added the PostgreSQL TopN extension to efficiently keep only the top 1000 values and put the long tail in an "Everything Else" heading.

  4. Algebird

    Abstract Algebra for Scala

    https://github.com/twitter/algebird (production ready, used at Twitter, but for the JVM)

  5. countminsketch

    An implementation of Count-Min Sketch in Golang

    https://github.com/shenwei356/countminsketch (for golang)

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