The biggest problem is the query language. Without a query language, a company must hire and keep on-staff a developer who can help express problems to the data

The biggest problem is the query language. Without a query language, a company must hire and keep on-staff a developer who can help express problems to the database. Time after time people told me that they ended up with giant databases and needed to run lots of ad-hoc queries or generate reports from them. Once a time-series database becomes the system of record for important information, it needs to be queried for everything from invoicing to analytics to troubleshooting. In practice, larger companies end up with at least two full time developers who write applications to produce answers from the database. These are answers that the business/marketing/ops/whoever should be able to get themselves by just running queries. As time passes, this is both a huge cost and a bottleneck.[0] Link [1] goes to the archive mirror. [0]: https://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/03/02/time-series-databases-influxdb/ https://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/03/02/time-series-databases-... [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170917033402/https://www.xaprb.com/blog/2014/03/02/time-series-databases-influxdb/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170917033402/https://www.xaprb...