"There was a very interesting talk about Tin ("the database so tiny they had to shorten its name"). This basically seemed to be a very clever approach for delivering stock data that leveraged a basic filesystem with range queries and rewriting rules via Sinatra. Turns out web servers serving static files goes pretty fast, if that's a suitable representation for your stuff (seems like his primary use case is for delivering read-only out to clients, where the data gets updated asynchronously in the background by the system). We actually have some datasets that are like that, so this is intriguing!" - Pradeep Gowda from Bookmarklet