Glossary

List of terms and concepts used in QuestDB and other time series or analytics databases

A

Anomaly detectionApache ParquetARIMA

C

CAP TheoremChange Data Capture (CDC)Classification (time series and statistical analysis)Columnar DatabaseCRUDCurve fitting (time series and statistical analysis)

D

Database PartitioningDownsampling

E

Exponential smoothing

F

Forecasting (time series data)

H

Headless DataHigh CardinalityHyperLogLog (data structure)

M

Materialized View

N

Non-relational Database

O

Object Storage

R

Relational Database

S

Segmentation (time series and statistical analysis)Stream Processing

T

Tick DataTime series analysisTime-series database