Case Study

Motion uses QuestDB for high-performance API analytics

Learn how fast-growing startup Motion uses QuestDB to monitor and handle their rapidly growing API usage.

Superfast analytics
Real-time, intensive API tracking
Worry-free reliability
High availability, security and scale.
QuestDB OSS
Built from open source.
Interactive calendar interface from QuestDB showing API usage analytics
Avg ingested rows/sec
3M+
Write speed vs InfluxDB
10x
Compression ratio
6x
Cloud up-time
99.99999%
Motion’s dashboard integrating QuestDB for enhanced data analytics

Empowering AI productivity

Motion relies on QuestDB

Motion leverages QuestDB to enhance their AI-infused productivity tools, ensuring high performance and reliability for millions of users worldwide.

Real-Time Analytics
QuestDB powers real-time analytics, for immediate insights into user interactions. Data is kept clean via native out-of-order indexing and deduplication.

"QuestDB made it 10x easier to build a real-time time-series graph visualizer for our users."

Harry Qi
CEO of Motion
QuestDB SQL
SELECT
Timestamp AS hour,
SUM(count) AS requests_per_hour
FROM
API_usage
WHERE
timestamp >= dateadd('d', -1, timestamp('d', now()))
SAMPLE BY
1H ALIGN TO CALENDAR

Internal and customer dashboards

Powerful SQL for dashboards

Track massive numbers of API calls and downsample the results based on periods of time. With QuestDB time-series native SQL extensions, Motion manages and downsamples these events using "SAMPLE BY".

Faster time-to-market

Familiar syntax, unfamiliar performance

Motion leverages the Postgres Wire Protocol to do transactional inserts, which interacts with the front end of their application in NodeJS. For the Motion team, the Posgres Wire Protocol offered a familiar and straightforward option to get started.

“We use QuestDB to track API usage. For time-series data, QuestDB is a no-brainer, and the client libraries are very intuitive.”

Chander RameshHead of Engineering
QuestDB performance compared to TimescaleDB and InfluxDB. QuestDB is the clear winner.

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