Timeseries databases have an entirely different set of technical challenges from relational databases. Also, I wouldn’t exactly call this proliferation. There a

Timeseries databases have an entirely different set of technical challenges from relational databases. Also, I wouldn’t exactly call this proliferation. There are relatively few decent timeseries databases in existence, some of which have been around since 1999. So yes, timeseries databases are incredibly helpful if you have to store, well, large amounts of timeseries data quickly.