What do you like best about the product?

Byond QuestDB being *incredibly fast*, it's also a joy to use. And more importantly, it's not a pain to use. Other DBs require more ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting, etc. QuestDB truly is a "set it & forget it", trustworthy DB that shines in production workloads.

The inbuilt SQL extensions and curated dialect make writing QuestDB SQL fast, fun, and powerful. The inbult REST support, in addition to the InfluxDB Line Protocol & PG Wire connection methods allow the user to select the best tool for the job.

Being open source, the deployment flexibility is fantastic. The QuestDB team regularly meets with us to ensure we're satisfied, and they regularly ship impactful features.

QuestDB is my definitive go-to for all timeseries needs!

What do you dislike about the product?

The QuestDB web console UI is helpful for adhoc exploration, but does not currently have a means of organizing / saving queries, so it gets messy fast. Additionally, some BI solutions (like PowerBI) or downstream applications can't connect to QuestDB's flavor of PG Wire, so we've had to go through the REST API in these cases. Fortunately, the QuestDB team is on it and anticipates delivering a fix to that soon.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We've tried Timescale, which simply takes just too much maintenance & configuration to optimize performance and stay agile. QuestDB requires almost no ongoing configuration because it ships incredibly fast by default. QuestDB eliminates the friction in storing & querying timeseries data.