The city NOC stores interface counters and hop latency keyed by metric name, timestamp, and device, mostly appending samples and running windowed queries. Which database type is the appropriate choice?
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Short Explanation
Counters and latency over time are a heartbeat tape—append, then ask “last hour / last day.” Time-series stores are built for that. Picking graph just because someone said “topology” answers the wrong question.
Full Explanation
Time-series databases match append-heavy, timestamp-keyed measurement workloads with windowed queries. Graph stores address relationship paths; mentioning network topology in a stem does not override a clear time-series access pattern. Relational OLTP and intent-tree documents serve other needs.