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Metrics, Logs and Traces: More Similar Than They Appear?
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. They require different approaches for storage and querying, making it a challenge to use a single solution. But InfluxDB is working to consolidate them into one....
Now Available: The Flight SQL Plugin for Grafana
Today we have exciting news for Grafana customers with Flight SQL data sources: Now there is a new community plugin available for Grafana that allows it to communicate with Flight-SQL-compatible databases. Flight SQL is a client-server protocol developed by the Apache...
A Guide to Regression Analysis with Time Series Data
This post was written by Mercy Kibet. Mercy is a full-stack developer with a knack for learning and writing about new and intriguing tech stacks. With the vast amount of time series data generated, captured, and consumed daily, how can you...
Distributed Database Architecture: What Is It?
This article, written by Alexander Fridman, was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Scroll below for the author’s profile. A look at the different types, their benefits and drawbacks, and how to design one. Databases...
Compactor: A Hidden Engine of Database Performance
This article was originally published in InfoWorld and is reposted here with permission. The compactor handles critical post-ingestion and pre-query workloads in the background on a separate server, enabling low latency for data ingestion and high performance for queries. The demand...
Python Time Module: A How-To Guide
This post was written by Keshav Malik. Scroll down for the author’s bio. The Python time module is a powerful tool for working with times and dates in both simple and complex ways, allowing you to easily manipulate dates, format strings,...
How to Get the Current Date and Time in SQL
This article was written by Pius Aboyi. Scroll down for the author’s bio. SQL databases have several functions that reduce the complexity of working with date and time. Using these functions and a date and time type column, you can depend...
What Is eBPF? An Introductory Guide
This post was written by Suleiman Abubakar Sadeeq. Scroll down to view the author’s bio. It’s sometimes necessary to modify the core of an OS — for example, to create more flexibility or allow custom code to run on the OS....
Using Deduplication for Eventually Consistent Transactions
This article was originally published in InfoWorld and is reposted here with permission. Deduplication is an effective alternative to transactions for eventually consistent use cases of a distributed database. Here’s why. Building a distributed database is complicated and needs to consider...
InfluxDB SQL Queries with Python
Recently InfluxData announced SQL support in InfluxDB Cloud, powered by IOx. Users can now use familiar SQL queries to explore and analyze their time series data. The SQL support was introduced along with the usage of Apache Arrow. Apache Arrow is...