Time Series Data and Tick Databases
Below we provide a number of tutorials covering storage and analysis of time series data, with a particular emphasis on tick/market data.
Databases for Finance
- QuestDB (2025) for Tick Data
- DolphinDB (2025) Introduction
- Stock Data Analysis using DuckDB (2025)
- Storing Market Tick Data
- QuestDB (2023) for financial tick data
- ClickHouse (2023) Trillion row finance data sets.
- DolphinDB (2023) Introduction
- DuckDB (2023) An in-process data warehouse.
- TimePlus (2023) Streaming Data Warehouse
- kdb+ Alternatives
kdb+
Time Series Databases
- What is a column-oriented database? - What makes them different to regular databases.
- Comparing column-oriented databases
- time-series database benchmarks
- PythonDB Data partitioned database
- What is a time-series database?
- Top Time-Series databases - Review of databases particularly suited to time-series analysis.
- MySQL Time Series SQL Queries.
- Kerf - The latest column oriented database.
- H2 Database Online - A fully browser based version of the H2 database.
Finance
- Storing Market Tick Data
- Building a Quant Platform
- Real-Time Stock Data APIs
- What is a Trade Blotter?
- Equities Rule 605 Data Free
Visualization
- Quant Data Visualization Tools
- Slick Grid Review - Open source, free, fast and fully customizable
- High Performance HTML Table Tuning
- Grafana is Slow - How to improve the performance.
- Grafana Free vs Enterprise - Which features are enterprise only?
- Add Form to Grafana - Send user input to Grafana
- Tableau is Slow - 10 tips to make it faster.
Learn
- Big Data Bytesize
- Modern Databases for Finance
- Modern Messaging Technologies
- DuckDB Tutorials
- Clickhouse vs kdb+
- Sample Datasets to Download
We will be expanding our articles in the coming weeks and are always happy to receive feedback on what topics you would like covered.