> But overall, they have a performance edge if it's a single column scan that precisely matches their particular architecture To be honest if they didn't - stu

> But overall, they have a performance edge if it's a single column scan that precisely matches their particular architecture To be honest if they didn't - stuff like Influx wouldn't really have a reason to exist. I think 99.9% of the operations in a devops environment will be pretty simple and predictable, it's a a trade-off they make. Queries are mostly there to draw graphs quickly. I quite like the simplicity of Influx, and while our current use is pretty limited and far from hitting it's limits, for reliability and maintenance reasons I'd prefer Postgres, for which we have quite extensive in-house know-how and tools in place. Prometheus is one of the tools we are considering to add to our monitoring stack, and having the option of storing it's data transparently in Postgres could be very interesting.