From 0a27f33621f18930863acd9f071c0b462d7ed67f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?javier=20ram=C3=ADrez?= <javier@formatinternet.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:33:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Refreshing the time-series section

Added a link to a post explaining what time-series data is. Added QuestDB to the alternatives to InfluxDB, as it is in the top 10 of the dbengines ranking for time-series and offers drop-in compatibility with influx ingestion and supports the ILP protocol
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 sections/03-AdvancedSkills.md | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sections/03-AdvancedSkills.md b/sections/03-AdvancedSkills.md
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@@ -1372,6 +1372,10 @@ Google Trends Grafana vs Kibana:\
 
 #### InfluxDB Time Series Database
 
+What is time-series data?
+
+<https://questdb.io/blog/what-is-time-series-data/>
+
 Key concepts:
 
 <https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.7/concepts/key_concepts/>
@@ -1390,7 +1394,7 @@ Performance Dashboard Spark and InfluxDB:
 <https://db-blog.web.cern.ch/blog/luca-canali/2019-02-performance-dashboard-apache-spark>
 
 Other alternatives for time series databases are: DalmatinerDB,
-InfluxDB, Prometheus, Riak TS, OpenTSDB, KairosDB
+QuestDB, Prometheus, Riak TS, OpenTSDB, KairosDB
 
 #### MPP Databases (Greenplum)