I really like Scuba (Meta's internal real-time database system). The distributed, real-time database part of Scuba is quite difficult (and expensive) to replicate, but I also really like Scuba's UI for doing queries, and I have found myself wishing that I have access to it even for "small" databases, e.g., I have a sqlite dataset I want to explore.
Here's a screenshot of this UI from https://research.facebook.com/publications/scuba-diving-into-data-at-facebook/:

Pivotal ideas:
- Time series by default. In the dedicated "time series" view, there are many features specifically oriented towards working towards tables that represent events that occurred over time: the start, end, compare, aggregate and granularity fields all specially privilege the timestamp field. In fact, you can't log events to Scuba's backing data store without a timestamp, they always come with one. (Scuba a