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Timbala was an experimental time-series database written in Go.

Website: https://github.com/mattbostock/timbala[01]
Source Code: https://github.com/mattbostock/timbala[01] Accessed: Jun 4, 2026 Last Commit: Feb 11, 2018
Tech Docs: https://github.com/mattbostock/timbala/tree/master/docs[02]
Developer: Matt Bostock
Country of Origin: GB
Start Year: 2016 [03]
End Year: 2018
Former Name: Athens
Project Types: Hobby, Open Source
Written in: Go
Compatible With: Prometheus
Operating System: Linux
License: Apache v2

Website: https://github.com/mattbostock/timbala[01]
Source Code: https://github.com/mattbostock/timbala[01] Accessed: Jun 4, 2026 Last Commit: Feb 11, 2018
Tech Docs: https://github.com/mattbostock/timbala/tree/master/docs[02]
Developer: Matt Bostock
Country of Origin: GB
Start Year: 2016 [03]
End Year: 2018
Former Name: Athens
Project Types: Hobby, Open Source
Written in: Go
Compatible With: Prometheus
Operating System: Linux
License: Apache v2

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Timbala

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Timbala was an experimental time-series database written in Go.

History

The project was abandoned in 2018.

Data Model

Relational

Query Interface

HTTP / REST PromQL

Storage Architecture

Disk-oriented

Storage Model

N-ary Storage Model (Row/Record)

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Citations

3 sources

GitHub - mattbostock/timbala: Durable time-series database that's API-compatible with Prometheus. · GitHub github.com Accessed: 2026-06-05
timbala/docs at master · mattbostock/timbala · GitHub github.com Accessed: 2026-06-05
Initial commit github.com Modified: 2016-10-15 Accessed: 2026-06-01

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