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Understanding InfluxDB IOx and the Commitment to Open Source
Note: To take advantage of InfluxDB IOx and the advancements mentioned in this post, sign up here. If you’ve been following InfluxDB, you’ve probably heard of InfluxDB IOx, the next evolution of the storage engine powering InfluxDB Cloud. However, I wanted...
Querying Parquet with Millisecond Latency
We believe that querying data in Apache Parquet files directly can achieve similar or better storage efficiency and query performance than most specialized file formats. While it requires significant engineering effort, the benefits of Parquet’s open format and broad ecosystem support...
Catering to the Bespoke: How InfluxDB Meets Developers Where They Are
At InfluxData, we pride ourselves on building a platform – InfluxDB – for developers, by developers. It’s not enough to simply “talk the talk.” As an engineering leader, it’s really important to me that InfluxData “walks the walk,” too. This requires...
AWS and InfluxDB – Reflections on re:Invent 2022 Keynote
Amazon re:Invent is a major technology event every year. At this year’s re:Invent, the keynote by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky made a concerted effort to draw connections between technology and some of the key challenges that people around the world, and...
Tracing with InfluxDB IOx
Tracing has always been a key use case for time series data. But admittedly, it’s also one that past versions of InfluxDB could not handle as well as we wanted. One of the roadblocks was the cardinality issue. Tracing data is,...
Visualizing Time Series Data with Chart.js and InfluxDB
This article was written by Armstrong Asenavi. Scroll down for the author’s photo and bio. Time series data is a sequence of data points generated through repeated measurements indexed over time. The data points originate from the same source and track...
An Introduction to Apache Parquet
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. A look at what Parquet is, how it works and some of the companies using its optimization techniques as a critical component in their architecture. As...
Monitoring Network Outages at the Edge and in the Cloud
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Gathering data to explore a problem with power outages creating connectivity issues and ultimately draining a laptop battery. Monitoring locations that have intermittent power and/or connectivity...
Partitioning for Performance in a Sharding Database System
This article was originally published in InfoWorld and is reposted here with permission. Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding...
InfluxDB is 5x Faster vs. MongoDB for Time Series Workloads
This blog post has been updated on November 17, 2022 with the latest benchmark results for InfluxDB v1.8.10 and MongoDB v5.0.6. To provide you with the latest findings, this blog is regularly updated with the latest benchmark figures. At InfluxData, one...