Time-Series Database with InfluxDB CEO Paul Dix

InfluxDB is an open-source time-series database.

Time-series data can be used by for metrics and analytics.

Paul Dix is the CEO of InfluxDB.

Questions

• What differentiates InfluxDB from a regular database with a timestamp on every entry?
• What is the full-stack architecture of a typical user of InfluxDB?
• Why are distributed time series databases so hard?
• What CAP tradeoffs does InfluxDB make?
• Does Go’s garbage collection make writing a database in the language difficult?
• What is a database?

Links

• dotScale: Time Series Data: the worst and best use case in distributed databases
• The Distributed Database Internals of InfluxDB
• InfluxDB Home Page

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