CERN SWAPS OUT DATABASES TO FEED ITS PETABYTE-A-DAY HABIT

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The particle accelerator at CERN spews out around a petabyte of data daily. Monitoring the computing infrastructure that processes the data is crucial. CERN implemented an open source wide column time series database as backend storage for its monitoring database, Prometheus. After a while, it used the same database for its frontend database too.