Storing large amounts of data in a database
问题 I'm currently working on a home-automation project which provides the user with the possibility to view their energy usage over a period of time. Currently we request data every 15 minutes and we are expecting around 2000 users for our first big pilot. My boss is requesting we that we store at least half a year of data. A quick sum leads to estimates of around 35 million records. Though these records are small (around 500bytes each) I'm still wondering whether storing these in our database