An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
We’ve covered InfluxData several times, most recently in July 2024. During the years of our coverage, the company has stuck to its knitting – making its open-source time-series database InfluxDB the best it can be.
The latest version of InfluxDB features several improvements. The company rewrote it in Rust for superior performance and memory handling. This version leverages object storage and separates compute and storage for better horizontal scalability on AWS and also natively supports SQL.
The result is a time-series database performant enough for the most stringent requirements across IoT, high-resolution telemetry, and operational database applications that require high cardinality, low latency, and massive inject loads.
Unlike competing time-series databases that are well suited to, say, financial transactions that take a few seconds, InfluxDB supports transactions under ten milliseconds for rigorous operational environments like satellites and rocket launches.
InfluxDB’s timestamps track time information to the nanosecond – a capability few customers require but is there when they need it.
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