Time Series Database Buying Guide

This technical paper discusses modern time series database and deployment architecture, examines the challenges and pitfalls of relational databases, and reveals how time series databases are an industry game-changer—especially when leveraging time series in the age of AI.

You'll also learn how a time series database can manage the vast array of time-stamped data from systems across industries—from manufacturing and aerospace to energy and utilities—to optimize performance, prevent downtime, and enable intelligent decisions that scale at the rate of technology.

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The E-book Includes:

Modern time series database and deployment architecture
The challenges and pitfalls of relational databases
Use cases that demonstrate how time series databases are an industry game-changer
How to leverage time series in the age of AI to its full potential

InfluxDB: High-Performance, Scalable Time Series Database

InfluxDB is a time series database engineered to handle large volumes of time-stamped data from any source, including IIoT sensors, metrics, telemetry, financial data, user analytics, and more. InfluxDB excels with highly contextualized data through its support for unlimited cardinality, allowing you to capture rich metadata without performance degradation.

Ingest at Scale

Collect millions of metrics per second at sub-second granularity.

Real-time Querying

Run milliseconds - fast queries on live or historical data. Perform complex temporal analysis from pinpointing anomalies to correlating events across long time ranges.

Unified Operational Visibility

Break down data silos. Consolidate telemetry and metrics from disparate systems to power live dashboards, anomaly detection, and automated alerts.

Cost-Effective Scaling

Scale economically, using efficient compression and storage to keep costs in check.

Open Standards

Built on open formats and standards to ensure interoperability and prevent vendor lock-in. Integrates seamlessly with Telegraf, an open source collection agent with 300+ plugins for ingesting data from virtually any source.

Activate powerful features

A single database that can ingest billions of data points from multiple data sources in real-time with unbounded cardinality to give you real-time insights from sensor and telemetry data.

Purpose-Built for Time Series Data

Offering non-blocking writes and reads, availability prioritized over data consistency, and built-in data lifecycle management

High-Speed Ingest at Scale

Designed to ingest millions of data points from hundreds of thousands of sensors & devices and no limits on data cardinality

Telegraf with 300+ Plugins for Data Collection

Customers can utilize MQTT, OPC-UA, or any of the 300+ Telegraf plugins to collect data from sensors & OT machines with nanosecond precision

One API Integration

InfluxDB API enables seamless integration with machine learning tools for predictive maintenance & other advanced analytics solutions

Edge Data Replication

Securely replicates any specified data (raw or summary) from InfluxDB at the edge to the cloud and removes complexity from setting up and maintaining edge-to-cloud replication