Case Study

Syndica uses QuestDB for real-time analytics

Learn how emerging Web3 startup Syndica offers user-facing analytics and real-time dashboards for companies building protocols and decentralized applications.

Turbo analytics
Real-time, intensive time-series ingress unphased by high cardinality
Web3 ready
At the scale of emerging, data-intensive Web3 protocols
QuestDB OSS
Built from open source.
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Avg ingested rows/sec
3M+
Write speed vs InfluxDB
10x
Compression ratio
6x
Cloud up-time
99.99999%
Syndica’s dashboard integrating QuestDB for enhanced data analytics

On the Web3 frontier

Syndica looked to QuestDB for massive scale

Syndica's sheer volume of collected data leads to unique requirements. But data-in is half the story. Fast queries and data-out are also essential. Dynamic, real-time dashboards for their internal teams and customers led them towards a time-series database.

Real-Time Analytics
To provide blazing fast analytics, Syndica uses QuestDB to collect a vast amount of time-series data from their user-accessible node infrastructure and API gateway.

"QuestDB outperforms every database we have tested and delivered a 10x improvement in querying speed. It has become a critical piece of our infrastructure."

Ahmad Abbasi
Co-founder and CEO at Syndica
QuestDB SQL
SELECT
      start_time AS ts,
      COUNT(*)
  FROM
      request_logs
  WHERE
      timestamp > dateadd('d', -30, now())
      AND kind = 'RPC'
  SAMPLE BY
      1s
  FILL(NULL)
  ALIGN TO CALENDAR

Premium time-series SQL extensions

Deep observability with SQL time-series extensions

Syndica uses SQL time-series extensions like SAMPLE BY for downsampling data. The following query samples massive RPC logs to power Syndica's dashboards. Through these queries, Syndica also provides structured searchable logs for the Syndica RPC. Developers can filter and drill down to very detailed time slices (milliseconds) of logging data to gain ultimate visibility and observability of the running application.
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Essential in modern architecture

QuestDB architecture for Syndica

Syndica leverages two high-performance QuestDB instances connecting to other applications via the InfluxDB line protocol ("ILP") for ingestion and PGWire for queries. To chart their infrastructure metrics, Syndica plots the results on dashboards via Grafana.
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"We have tried almost everything the market offers: ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL, Amazon Timestream, and InfluxDB. None of them met all of our requirements except QuestDB. ”

Ahmad Abbasi — Co-founder and CEO at Syndica
Syndica architecture diagram

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