Time Series Basics
Session Date: Jul 16, 2026
Time: 8:00am (PT) | 3:00pm (GMT) | 4:00pm (BST)
Sensors, metrics, logs, and financial ticks. More and more of the world’s data is stamped with time and arrives constantly. But time series data doesn’t behave like the data most databases were built for, and treating it the same way is where teams get stuck.
In this session, you’ll learn what makes time series data its own category, why traditional tools (like full-text search engines or general-purpose databases) struggle with it, and how InfluxDB is built specifically to handle it.
What you’ll learn:
- What time series data is, and what it isn’t
- Why time series data behaves differently from other workloads
- What a time series database is, and how it differs from relational, document, and search databases
Cole Bowden
Senior Developer Advocate
Cole Bowden is a Developer Advocate at InfluxData, where he helps the Influx community learn how to best use InfluxDB. With six years of experience in the data space, Cole is an expert in data analytics and databases, and he was previously a software engineer at Meta. You can always find him on the InfluxDB Community Slack or on Discord as datacole.
