A system includes a communications interface configured to receive a plurality of data series captured by a plurality of sensors. A first database includes at least a first data series of the plurality of data series. A second database includes metadata related to the first data series. One or more processors are configured to receive an instruction including an indication of a computation to perform and metadata filter criteria, query the second database to determine at least a portion of the first data series that satisfies the metadata filter criteria by reference to at least the metadata related to the first data series, access, from the first database and based on results of the query of the second database, the portion of the first data series, and perform the computation on the portion of first data series accessed from the first database.