QuestDB Client Library for Rust

Official Rust client for QuestDB, an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data, faster.

The client library is designed for fast ingestion of data into QuestDB via the InfluxDB Line Protocol (ILP).

• QuestDB Database docs
• Docs on InfluxDB Line Protocol

Quick Start

To start using questdb-rs, add it as a dependency of your project:

cargo add questdb-rs

Then you can try out this quick example, which connects to a QuestDB server running on your local machine:

use questdb::{
    Result,
    ingress::{
        Sender,
        Buffer,
        TimestampNanos}};

fn main() -> Result<()> {
   let mut sender = Sender::from_conf("http::addr=localhost:9000;")?;
   let mut buffer = Buffer::new();
   buffer
       .table("sensors")?
       .symbol("id", "toronto1")?
       .column_f64("temperature", 20.0)?
       .column_i64("humidity", 50)?
       .at(TimestampNanos::now())?;
   sender.flush(&mut buffer)?;
   Ok(())
}

Docs

Most of the client documentation is on the ingress module page.

Crate features

This Rust crate supports a number of optional features, in most cases linked to additional library dependencies.

For example, if you want to work with Chrono timestamps, use:

cargo add questdb-rs --features chrono_timestamp

Default-enabled features

• ilp-over-http: Enables ILP/HTTP support via the ureq crate.
• tls-webpki-certs: Supports using the webpki-roots crate for TLS certificate verification.

Optional features

These features are opt-in:

• chrono_timestamp: Allows specifying timestamps as chrono::Datetime objects.
• tls-native-certs: Supports validating TLS certificates against the OS's certificates store.
• insecure-skip-verify: Allows skipping server certificate validation in TLS (this compromises security).

C, C++ and Python APIs

This crate is also exposed as a C and C++ API and in turn exposed to Python.

• This project's GitHub page for the C and C++ API.
• Python bindings.

Community

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