I have a timeseries problem on the backburner, and like you am hopeful for InfluxDB but it's still missing a couple features that I need, so haven't used it yet

I have a timeseries problem on the backburner, and like you am hopeful for InfluxDB but it's still missing a couple features that I need, so haven't used it yet. As another person mentioned, you're going to be looking at columnar databases (few/one rows, with a very large amount of columns) if you have truly large storage requirements. Since my data is still small, I'm sticking with Postgres for now. I've seen a couple people mention OpenTSDB; another alternative to that is KairosDB[1], which adds Cassandra support and focuses on data purity[2] (OpenTSDB will interpolate values if there are holes). And to echo another person, just forget about Graphite/Whisper. It uses a simple pre-allocated block format that will eventually cause problems when you want to change time windows. [1]: https://code.google.com/p/kairosdb/ https://code.google.com/p/kairosdb/ [2]: https://code.google.com/p/kairosdb/wiki/FAQ https://code.google.com/p/kairosdb/wiki/FAQ