Show HN: Pushdata.io – Ultra simple time series data storage
Regarding the free account limit: 1000 data points in time series world is pretty much nothing. What happens if you reach that limit, does it just delete the oldest point? This would give you a month worth of data with one data point every hour or 16 hours at one point per minute. Though at one point per minute, you&#x27;d also exceed the rate limit of 1000 API calls per day. So you&#x27;re stuck with one data point per hour I guess or maybe one per 5 minute interval and 3 days of data retention. I guess one could argue &quot;but it&#x27;s free!&quot;.<p>There&#x27;s no way to do any processing of the data like aggregations, min&#x2F;max, grouping etc. meaning one would have to always fetch the raw data points and then do processing yourself. This kinda works because the amount of datapoints that this supports is so incredibly low. Seeing billions of datapoints over thousands of time series is not that uncommon and you wouldn&#x27;t be able to use this service for those cases even with the &quot;Business Pro&quot; account for $450&#x2F;month.<p>When it comes to serious business users, you should ensure that you don&#x27;t impose any hard limits on them, instead charge them for the usage. You point out how scalable the service is but you don&#x27;t allow customers to scale their usage of it. Consider why every cloud vendor (AWS, Google, Azure) charges for example per API call, per amount of objects stored etc. They are happy to take your 10 Petabytes of data and charge you handsomely for it.<p>Overall it seems like a service for toy projects or projects with very very low amounts of data. But then again you&#x27;d be able to store this amount of data in any SQL DB without problem while retaining control of your data, having much more flexibility, getting more speed out of it and being able to do computations on the data in an easier way. This is just too limited, both in terms of amount of data as well as featureset.<p>I hope this comment doesn&#x27;t sound too harsh, I intended it as constructive criticism.