Build candlestick charts in minutes with QuestDB and React
Blog post from QuestDB
QuestDB is an open-source, next-generation database designed for handling market data with high ingestion throughput and efficient hardware utilization, making it ideal for tick data analysis. The text explores the utility of candlestick charts, a visualization tool originating from Japan, which provides a detailed view of asset price changes over time, capturing open, high, low, and close prices. The piece outlines a step-by-step process to create real-time candlestick charts using QuestDB for data storage and Apache ECharts for rendering, highlighting the ease of creating interactive, data-rich visualizations in a React application. QuestDB's time-series database capabilities are emphasized for efficiently managing and querying high-frequency financial data, allowing users to build custom dashboards with features like zoom, tooltips, and dynamic updates.