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Introduction
A connected product usually handles its data on two computers. The device is a microcontroller with kilobytes of RAM, flash that wears with every erase, and power that …
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How It Works
The idea. A native hybrid of key-value and SQL: a very small database on the device that reads the sensors, keeping its data so that the gateway’s database can use …
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AltSql Core and Six Prototypes Built Around It
AltSql Core is the base module, the one the project started with. It keeps key-value data and time-series readings on a device, answers SQL on a gateway, and copies the …
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The Learned Query Optimizer
Status: planned for the Advanced Beta. The Alpha answers every query the same way, whatever state the device is in. A device in the field is rarely in the same state …
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Next Verticals: Eight Industries Where a Database on the Sensor Could Fit
The three case studies share one pattern. A device keeps its own data, decides for itself and talks over a link that is slow, costly or often down. Its gateway receives …