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🚀 Getting Started with SquirrelDB

SquirrelDB

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SquirrelDB is a scalable and highly available timeseries database (TSDB) compatible with Prometheus remote storage. Timeseries are stored in Cassandra to provide scalability and availability.

Features​

  • Time Series Database with Prometheus Long Term Storage
  • Support pre-aggregation of data for faster read
  • Rely on Cassandra, well known and reliable NoSQL database
  • Support single node and cluster architectures
  • Expose PromQL, remote read and write Prometheus endpoints

High Availability​

SquirrelDB allows both availability and scalability:

  • The long term storage availability and scalability is done by a Cassandra cluster by using a replication level > 1 (3 is recommended).
  • The short term storage (by default last 15 minutes) is stored in-memory by default and can be configured to be stored in Redis. A Redis cluster will provide availability and scalability of short term storage.
  • When short term storage is provided by Redis, SquirrelDB instance are stateless, scaling them is just adding more of them behind a load-balancer (like nginx).

Check out the high availability page to see how this setup can de deployed.

Quickstart​

You can test SquirrelDB easily with Cassandra, Prometheus, Grafana and Node Exporter using the provided Docker compose on SquirrelDB GitHub repository.