"QuestDB in Depth"
"QuestDB in Depth" is the ultimate technical guide for developers, architects, and engineering leaders seeking profound understanding and mastery of QuestDB, an open-source database purpose-built for high-performance time series workloads. This definitive volume opens with a detailed exploration of time series database principles, diving into QuestDB's architecture, columnar storage techniques, ingestion strategies, concurrency mechanisms, and performance-optimized execution engine. Readers will gain a clear view of how data flows through QuestDB, from initial ingestion to vectorized query execution, while uncovering the design philosophies that enable massive throughput with minimal latency.
The book delivers a comprehensive roadmap for real-world deployment, addressing every essential aspect of high-throughput engineering and system resilience. It covers advanced querying with QuestDB's SQL dialect and time series extensions, outlines best practices for data lifecycle management, tiered storage, backup and disaster recovery, and demonstrates key security and compliance patterns—from authentication and encryption to privacy controls and audit logging. Further, readers will find practical guidance on performance tuning, horizontal scaling, workload benchmarking, and low-level systems optimization, ensuring that solutions built on QuestDB are robust, efficient, and future-proof.
In its later chapters, "QuestDB in Depth" bridges theory with practice, presenting in-depth case studies across critical domains such as financial services, IoT telemetry, infrastructure observability, and environmental monitoring. The text also dives into integration patterns, cloud deployments, BI tool support, operational excellence, and cost optimization, rounding out the discussion with a look ahead at QuestDB's roadmap toward distributed architectures and new SQL extensions. Whether you are building ultra-fast analytics systems or modern cloud-native platforms, this book will be your indispensable reference for getting the most out of QuestDB.
