Time-series databases are used for scenarios involving collecting time-stamped data. You probably want to generate summaries (rollups and aggregations), data retention policies, and so forth. That every datum is time-stamped makes it immediately different from regular SQL databases. InfluxDB is an open source time-series database.
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