Databaseopen-source
InfluxDB
Purpose-built time-series database for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
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Scalability
very high
Performance
very high
Learning Curve
moderate
Maturity
mature
Languages: Go, Rust
Architecture: time-series, columnar
When to Use
- +Time-series data
- +Metrics collection
- +IoT applications
- +Real-time dashboards
When Not to Use
- -General-purpose database
- -Relational data
- -Low-cardinality data
Strengths
- 30k+ stars
- Purpose-built for time-series
- High ingest rates
- SQL-like query
Weaknesses
- Learning curve
- Resource intensive
- Cardinality limits
Operations
Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
medium
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: self-hosted, cloud, managed
Quick Facts
- Category
- Database
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- freemium (free tier)
- Community
- very large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- stable
- Vendor Lock-in
- medium
- Data Portability
- moderate
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
startupsmallmediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- Metrics
- IoT data
- Real-time analytics
- APM
- Financial data
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