Best of breed indexing data structures for Extremely Large time-series

Question

I\'d like to ask fellow SO\'ers for their opinions regarding best of breed data structures to be used for indexing time-series (aka column-wise data, aka flat linear).

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Answer 1

It is going to be really time consuming and complicated to implement this by your self. I recommend you use Cassandra. Cassandra can give you horizontal scalability, redundancy and allow you to run complicated map reduce functions in future. To learn how to store time series in cassandra please take a look at: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/advanced-time-series-with-cassandra and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzBJrQZjge0.