InfluxDB Clustering - High Availability and Scalability
InfluxDB clustering is available as part of InfluxData’s commercial product offered in both managed and self-managed capacities. Architectural overview An InfluxDB Enterprise installation (the latest at the time of writing is v.1.8.2) allows for a clustered InfluxDB installation which consists of...
Apache Arrow, Parquet, Flight and Their Ecosystem are a Game Changer for OLAP
Apache Arrow, a specification for an in-memory columnar data format, and associated projects: Parquet for compressed on-disk data, Flight for highly efficient RPC, and other projects for in-memory query processing will likely shape the future of OLAP and data warehousing systems....
InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 Launches as a Serverless Platform for Time Series Data
Today we’re excited to announce the general release of InfluxDB Cloud 2.0. InfluxDB 2.0 brings together storage, UI and visualization (formerly Chronograf), processing, monitoring and alerting (formerly Kapacitor) into one cohesive whole. It’s the evolution of the TICK Stack into a...
Announcing InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 Beta Free Tier
I’m excited to announce that today we’re launching the open beta of our InfluxDB 2.0 Cloud offering. This cloud release contains everything released in the open source alpha 9 of InfluxDB 2.0, but in a fully managed and hosted product. While...
AWS Intends for Their New Project to be an Elasticsearch Fork
Yesterday Amazon (AWS) unveiled Open Distro for Elasticsearch in a blog post along with its own companion site. In another blog post titled Keeping Open Source Open they make an argument for the motivation behind the project and the desire to...
InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha Release and the Road Ahead
Today we’re releasing the first alpha build of InfluxDB 2.0. Our vision for 2.0 is to collapse the TICK Stack into one cohesive and consistent whole which combines the time series database, the UI and dashboarding tool, and the background processing...
InfluxDB Master Branch to Switch to 2.0 on Jan 11
This is a short update to the InfluxDB community to announce that the master branch of InfluxDB will be switched over to the alpha version of 2.0 on Friday, January 11th. While the final alpha release will have a migration path...
Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, but they are a dead end
Last Friday Confluent announced that they would be changing the license on some portions of their platform from Apache2 to The Confluent Community License. This comes on the heels of AWS’ recent launch at Re:Invent 2018 of a managed Kafka service....
Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also the most exciting thing in software development in a long time
I recently decided to put serious effort into learning the Rust programming language. I saw it coming up frequently in interesting projects (e.g. ripgrep) and kept hearing good things about it. My hesitation to picking up Rust since its 1.0 release...
Learning Flux (#fluxlang) is About As Difficult As Learning an API
Flux (#fluxlang) is the new data scripting language that we’re creating to make querying and analyzing time series and other kinds of data quick and easy. Flux will be able to work with data from InfluxDB, Prometheus, relational databases, CSV files,...