Check out http://btrdb.io/ which is a similar idea. It's a distributed database as well. It was designed for storing billions or even trillions of records for electrical data from hundreds of sources at once.
It was written by a couple of friends of mine and others, so I'm not sure how it compares to the article link, as I'm not a databases expert.
It was written by a couple of friends of mine and others, so I'm not sure how it compares to the article link, as I'm not a databases expert.