Time series database: Should I use one?
summary
InfluxDB is pitched as a time‑indexed engine for high‑ingest telemetry — used by Tesla Powerwall, Nest, Disney+ and Rappi — with over 550,000 deployments and 1,300 customers. It pairs a collector (Telegraf) with built‑in retention policies and downsampling to cut storage and supports nanosecond precision (trillions of points/day) by trading away cheap per‑point updates/deletes for fast append and range queries; try the free hosted tier or OSS build to validate ingest, compression and query performance.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Time series databases
- 4:01What is time series data
- 8:57Why use a TSDB
- 17:21Is a TSDB right for me
- 21:38Alternatives & getting started
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