InfluxDB
More info
- Creator
- Paul Dix (InfluxData)
- Released
- Owner
- InfluxData
- Type
- Time-series database
- License
- MIT / proprietary
- Website
- influxdata.com
- Source
- github.com/influxdata/influxdb
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Time-series database — purpose-built for large volumes of time-stamped data (metrics, sensors, financial ticks).
Model: measurement (≈ table), tags (indexed strings), fields (measurement values), timestamp. Custom query language: first InfluxQL (SQL-ish), then Flux (functional), and in Influx 3.0 rewritten entirely on top of Apache DataFusion + Parquet with pure SQL.
Competitors: TimescaleDB (Postgres extension), Prometheus (pull model, for metrics), VictoriaMetrics, QuestDB. Influx was a pioneer but has lost ground to Prometheus in the K8s world.