Another viable player that took the path similar to M3DB is VictoriaMetrics [1]. This allowed implementing various features [2] and optimizations [3] without th

Another viable player that took the path similar to M3DB is VictoriaMetrics [1]. This allowed implementing various features [2] and optimizations [3] without the need to negotiate their integration into upstream Prometheus. Such negotiations can stuck forever. [4] [1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/ https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/ [2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki/ExtendedPromQL https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki/Exte... [3] https://medium.com/@valyala/measuring-vertical-scalability-for-time-series-databases-in-google-cloud-92550d78d8ae https://medium.com/@valyala/measuring-vertical-scalability-f... [4] https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/3746 https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/3746