QuestDB at Big Data LDN 2022

Big Data LDN (London) is the UK's leading data and analytics conference, featuring numerous talks and vendor exhibitions over two days, where Javier Ramirez from QuestDB presented on "Ingesting A Million Time Series Per Second On A Single Instance." The event, which took place on September 21 and 22, 2022, attracted a diverse crowd including data engineers, analysts, decision-makers, and students, and showcased well-known tools and databases like Kafka, ClickHouse, InfluxDB, MongoDB, and Fivetran. Ramirez's talk focused on the capabilities of QuestDB, emphasizing its ability to manage fast queries alongside heavy data writes, and discussed the database's innovations such as optimizing imports with io_uring and using JAVA with minimal Garbage Collection. Attendees were particularly interested in QuestDB's real-world applications, horizontal scalability, and ease of transitioning from relational to time series databases, with the event fostering discussions on potential collaborations and real-time data challenges across various industries, including finance and motorsports.