> Though events are usually in chronological order, they're not numeric data points (though they can contain that too) I think the thing is that the primary us

> Though events are usually in chronological order, they're not numeric data points (though they can contain that too) I think the thing is that the primary use-case for a lot of people combines the two - eg they want to log a whole key:value map where values can be numeric or string, and then dynamically generate time series. We can do this with SQL, like if I want a graph of traffic per domain name, "SELECT time_bucket, domain_name, sum(bytes) FROM access_log GROUP BY time_bucket, domain_name" - but all SQL servers are totally non-optimised for this use case. Surely there must be some software out there which can do this efficiently?