Saving to the database
The data collector application currently writes to the filesystem. While this is useful for archiving, it makes it difficult and slow to access and query any sort of analysis or display.
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If you are not experienced with databases, here is a very rapid introduction! Databases are collections of data in a structured form. These are accessed and managed via a database management system. You may have heard of SQL Server, MySQL, Hadoop or Oracle.
Databases are typically accessed using a language called SQL to read and write records from the database. Data is usually organized into tables, and each table is made up of records. Each table has a set columns defined as data types—it is similar to variables in a programming language. ...
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