To ensure storing, analyzing, and merging the sensor data we have collected in our Raspberry Pi hubs, we need to use specialized data management solutions. Predix offers a good selection of services for this purpose, as listed here:
- Asset
- Event Hub
- Time Series
- Database as a Service
- Blobstore
- Message Queue (AMQP)
- Key-Value Store:
Data management services in the Predix catalog
You can select any of the services, depending on your data type and the operations you need to perform. In particular, for our application that handles time series data, we can use the Time Series storage.
The following subsections describe the data management services offered by Predix (https://www.predix.io/catalog/services/) in more detail, highlighting their features and the purposes for which they are usually used.