How to store time-series data in MongoDB, and why that’s a bad idea

tl;dr

- MongoDB good for some things, but not time-series data

- In fact TimescaleDB sees 20% higher inserts, up to 1400x faster queries, and a much simpler query language (read: SQL)

- But if you still want to store time-series data in MongoDB, this post presents two different ways of doing so, with trade-offs