Need Advice: Is this a good use case for a 'NoSQL' Database? If so, which one?

Question

I have recently been researching NoSql options. My scenario is as follows:

We collect and store data from custom hardware at remote locations around the world. We record

Answer 1

FWIW: After a year and a half of working and scaling the EAV schema in MySQL we got the point where our choices were:

1. Move the DB to an expensive bare metal set up.
2. Re-investigate NoSQL solutions.

We have ended up choosing Cassandra and using a schema heavily influenced by the OpenTSDB project.

Cassandra is a very strong choice for storing Time Series data and has met our requirements nicely.