Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB

Such data is typically referred to as Time Series data:

From the database point of view there are the following qualities of time series data:

Obviously, a traditional SQL database is no good fit for storing such data because general-purpose optimizations do not take these qualities into account. TimescaleDB (TSDB) is a PostgreSQL extension, which adds time series based performance and data management optimizations to a regular PostgreSQL (PG) database. The database knows which tables must be treated as time series data (with all needed optimizations in place) but you can continue to use SQLs for both time series and regular database tables.

Source: blog.zabbix.com