I think the big deal is allegedly &quot;we now have so much data that we have a use for distributed databases with high performance&quot;, which allows them to go on and say &quot;and <i>our</i> big deal is that we&#x27;ve built a high-performance distributed database tuned especially for time series&quot;.<p>I only noticed it because I was shocked that there was an actual comprehensible value proposition in a blogpost about a NoSQL product.