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Technically speaking, Victoria Metrics is more like a message logger than a database, but since there is no “message logger” section, it will go here.
It is part of a new breed of No-SQL databases, along with influxdb, that focus on providing data storage methods for services in “the internet of things”. We will not pause to explain what that is at the moment, so if unfamiliar, your are just going to have to look that one up.