Welcome to InfluxDB IOx: InfluxData’s New Storage Engine

Today I’m excited to announce that we deployed our next-generation storage engine that’s built on InfluxDB IOx in our InfluxDB Cloud platform. #influxdb | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 1 year ago

Relational Databases vs. Time Series Databases

In this article, you will learn about time series databases and how they compare to more traditional relational databases. #influxdb | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 1 year ago

Implementation of Apache Arrow in Go Using C2goasm and SIMD (2018)

InfluxData is pleased to announce our contribution to the Apache Arrow project. Essentially, we are contributing the work that we’ve started to develop a Go implementation of Apache Arrow. We believe in open source and are committed to participating in... | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 1 year ago

InfluxDB 1.X: open-source Time Series Platform

InfluxDB 1.x Download InfluxDB 1.x InfluxDB is a time series database designed to handle high write and query loads. What is InfluxDB 1.x? InfluxDB is the | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 1 year ago

New InfluxDB Features for Industrial IoT

In this InfluxData blog post by Brian Gilmore, learn about the new InfluxDB enhancements to build IoT applications. #influxdb | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 2 years ago

Flux Query Language

From the makers of InfluxDB, the purpose-built time series database, comes Flux: an open source query language which makes querying time series data easier than ever. Flux is a lightweight, readable, standalone data scripting and query language that increases productivity and cod … | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 3 years ago

How InfluxDB IOx Manages the Data Lifecycle of Time Series Data

This post by InfluxData founder and CTO Paul Dix covers the design for how InfluxDB IOx plans to manage the time series data lifecycle. #influxdb | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 3 years ago

InfluxDB 2.0 Is Out

Today, we are proud to announce that InfluxDB Open Source 2.0 is now generally available for everyone. | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 3 years ago

InfluxDB 2.0 Is Out

InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, today announced the general availability of the next-generation open source platform for time series data, InfluxDB 2.0. | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 3 years ago

InfluxDB is betting on Rust and Apache Arrow for next-gen data store

InfluxData Founder & CTO Paul Dix lays out a vision for the future of InfluxDB and introduces a new project that will form its basis: InfluxDB IOx. | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 3 years ago

May the 4th Be with You

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away the phrase “May the Force be with you” originated to wish those good luck before parting ways, oftentimes before a journey or battle. | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 3 years ago

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 … Apache Arrow, Parquet, … | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 4 years ago

InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 Launches as a Serverless Platform for Time Series Data

Today we’re excited to announce the general release of InfluxDB Cloud 2.0. InfluxDB 2.0 brings together storage, UI and visualization (formerly Chronograf), processing, monitoring and alerting (formerly Kapacitor) into one cohesive whole. It’s the evolution of the TICK Stack into … | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 4 years ago

InfluxData launches InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 – the first serverless time series PaaS

SAN FRANCISCO — September 10, 2019 — InfluxData, creator of InfluxDB and pioneer of the modern time series database, today announced the general availability of InfluxDB Cloud 2.0, the first serverless time series platform, purpose-built to meet the specialized requirements of to … | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 4 years ago

InfluxDB and Kafka: How InfluxData Uses Kafka in Production

Following CTO Paul Dix’s original release announcement for InfluxDB 2.0 and a new release of InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 to public beta, I thought the community would be interested in learning about how InfluxData provides a multi-tenanted, horizontally scalable time series storage. | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 4 years ago

Reproducing a Flaky Test in Go

In this document I will detail the approaches I have found to be effective to methodically reproduce a test failure, over many hours I've spent tracking down many flaky tests. But first, let's look at the common patterns that result in flaky tests. | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 4 years ago

Introducing Our New Influx Community Slack Workspace

We're thrilled to announce that, starting today, we have a public InfluxData Community Slack workspace. | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 5 years ago

AWS Intends for Their New Project to Be an Elasticsearch Fork

This post argues that it is absolutely AWS’ intention to fork the Elastic community. What could this mean for other commercial open source vendors? | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 5 years ago

InfluxDB 2.0 Alpha and the Road Ahead

Today we’re releasing the first alpha build of InfluxDB 2.0. Our vision for 2.0 is to collapse the TICK Stack into one cohesive and consistent whole which combines the time series database, the UI and dashboarding tool, and the background processing and monitoring agent behind a … | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 5 years ago

Copyleft and community licenses are not without merit, but they are a dead end

Last Friday Confluent announced that they would be changing the license on some portions of their platform from Apache2 to The Confluent Community License. This comes on the heels of AWS’ recent launch at Re:Invent 2018 of a managed Kafka service. Their move follows similar moves … | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 5 years ago

Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also very exciting

I recently decided to put serious effort into learning the Rust programming language. I saw it coming up frequently in interesting projects (e.g. ripgrep) and kept hearing good things about it. My hesitation to picking up Rust since its 1.0 release in 2015 came from two fronts. F … | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 5 years ago

Why Open Source Works for the Renewable Energy Sector

InfluxData in the News: Chris Churilo discusses how scalable software solutions built with open-source tools contribute to renewable energy sector growth. | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 5 years ago

Building an InfluxDB IoT Edge Data Collection Device – Blog – InfluxData

A demonstration system that shows off the capabilities of using InfluxData—the entire TICK Stack—on the extreme edge of an IoT Architecture | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 5 years ago

It’s time for the open source community to get real

Like many open source developers, I’ve been reading the commentary around Redis Common Clause Licensing with great interest (HN thread). The gist of it is that work on certain enterprise modules for Redis that are developed by RedisLabs will be licensed under the Apache Common Cl … | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 5 years ago

Why We’re Building Flux, a New Data Scripting and Query Language

Last month I gave a talk at InfluxDays London about Flux (#fluxlang), the new query and scripting language we’re building for InfluxDB 2.0. One of the more common questions I get when I talk about Flux is why? Why would you go to the trouble of creating a new language? Why not ju … | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 5 years ago

Will Kubernetes collapse under the weight of its complexity?

A few weeks ago, I attended and spoke at KubeCon EU. It was a massive event attended by around 4,700 people...However, I felt there was an underlying problem with the whole spectacle: everyone I talked to was either an operator or an SRE. Where were all the application developers … | Continue reading


@influxdata.com | 5 years ago