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Direct SQL, API, and MCP access to the platform that powers all of Nominal.

chamber_pressure.sql
SELECT DATE_BIN(INTERVAL '10' SECOND, ts,
    TIMESTAMP '1970-01-01 00:00:00') AS bucket_start,
  AVG(value) AS mean_bar, MAX(value) AS peak_bar
FROM points_double
WHERE dataset_rid = '<dataset_rid>'
  AND channel = 'chamber_pressure_bar'
  AND ts >= TIMESTAMP '2026-09-09 12:00:00'
  AND ts <  TIMESTAMP '2026-09-09 12:01:00'
GROUP BY bucket_start
ORDER BY bucket_start;
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  • Hardware Startups

    A fit-for-purpose platform that makes telemetry, logs, and video actually easy to work with. No plumbing, no platform team, just query and ship.

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    A unified, secure system of record and context for all hardware programs. Performant enough for mission-critical operations and dynamic enough for third-party ecosystems.

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Peak ingestion throughput

Validated in load testing.

10M+pts/s
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With tuned batching. One production customer sustains 6.6M pts/s across ~25,000 concurrent channels.

200ms
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Added by the Nominal backend, for live windows of 10 minutes or less.

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No new formats. No new scripts.

Point it at the files your rigs already write. Nominal parses them, resolves channels, and attaches every point to the test and asset it came from.

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