Time Series Data and Tick Databases

Our work with these databases informed the design of Pulse
The internal application runtime used when teams move beyond analysis into production systems.

Below we provide a number of tutorials covering storage and analysis of time series data, with a particular emphasis on tick/market data.

Databases for Finance

QuestDB (2025) for Tick Data
DolphinDB (2025) Introduction
Stock Data Analysis using DuckDB (2025)
Storing Market Tick Data

QuestDB (2023) for financial tick data
ClickHouse (2023) Trillion row finance data sets.
DolphinDB (2023) Introduction
DuckDB (2023) An in-process data warehouse.
TimePlus (2023) Streaming Data Warehouse
kdb+ Alternatives

kdb+

Kdb+ Tutorials

Time Series Databases

What is a column-oriented database? - What makes them different to regular databases.
Comparing column-oriented databases
time-series database benchmarks
PythonDB Data partitioned database
What is a time-series database?
Top Time-Series databases - Review of databases particularly suited to time-series analysis.
MySQL Time Series SQL Queries.
Kerf - The latest column oriented database.
H2 Database Online - A fully browser based version of the H2 database.

Finance

Visualization

Quant Data Visualization Tools
Slick Grid Review - Open source, free, fast and fully customizable
High Performance HTML Table Tuning
Grafana is Slow - How to improve the performance.
Grafana Free vs Enterprise - Which features are enterprise only?
Add Form to Grafana - Send user input to Grafana
Tableau is Slow - 10 tips to make it faster.

Learn

Big Data Bytesize
Modern Databases for Finance
Modern Messaging Technologies
DuckDB Tutorials
Clickhouse vs kdb+
Sample Datasets to Download
ZooKeeper Client Tutorial - Get/set values, set watches etc.

We will be expanding our articles in the coming weeks and are always happy to receive feedback on what topics you would like covered.