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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....
Getting Started with the InfluxDB Go Client
There are several ways to write and query InfluxDB v2 (either open source or Cloud). You can use the HTTP API, Telegraf and any of 200+ plugins, or a client library. However, if you’re specifically looking to build an application with...
Getting Started with JavaScript and InfluxDB 2.0
With 200+ plugins, Telegraf has a wide variety of methods for scraping, writing, and querying data to and from InfluxDB. However, sometimes users need to perform data collection outside of the capabilities of Telegraf. Perhaps they need to collect custom data...
InfluxDB is Now Available in Google Cloud Marketplace
In February, we announced the general availability of InfluxDB on Google Cloud, as well as a rich set of integrations that allow you to use our time series data platform to monitor your Google Cloud services, store sensor data from Google...
First Contact Day
In “Star Trek: First Contact,” the USS Enterprise-E and her crew are sent through a temporal vortex in an attempt to stop the Borg from preventing the human civilization’s first warp flight, which leads to the first contact with an extraterrestrial...
How Road Traffic Insights Derived from Sensor Data Improve Public Safety and Reduce Emergency Services Response Times
It’s easy to see the value of sensor data that enables acting in time. Just picture driving as the scene of a massive traffic accident unfolds and ambulances race to the rescue — what a difference a few seconds can make....
Slack Tips for Remote Communication
As the world is now forced into remote working due to COVID-19, I believe it’s important to make some things explicit that have been implicit for many a remote worker over the past few years with the rise of Slack in...
Why I Joined InfluxData - Michael Ellis
May I let you in on a little secret? Everyone feels like an impostor sometimes, and that is a perfectly natural feeling to experience. Perhaps you have, at one time or another, doubted whether or not you had what it takes...
Happy Pi Day!
Do quiches count as pies? March 14th marks a special day for those who love Pi or pie. Pi is one of the most studied numbers. Pi Day is held annually on March 14th to celebrate the mathematical constant Pi (?)....
Zeppelin, Spark, and InfluxDB for Big Data Time Series Scenarios
So you’re using InfluxDB and Telegraf. Perhaps you’re writing over a million metrics points per second. Perhaps you’ve used Flux to do some data exploration. However, you now find yourself in a little bit of a pickle. You need to process...