Another viable player that took the path similar to M3DB is VictoriaMetrics [1]. This allowed implementing various features [2] and optimizations [3] without the need to negotiate their integration into upstream Prometheus. Such negotiations can stuck forever. [4]
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They took a different path on the ”never build your own database” question.
Another viable player that took the path similar to M3DB is VictoriaMetrics [1]. This allowed implementing various features [2] and optimizations [3] without the need to negotiate their integration into upstream Prometheus. Such negotiations can stuck forever. [4]
[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/
[2] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki/Exte...
[3] https://medium.com/@valyala/measuring-vertical-scalability-f...
[4] https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/3746