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InfluxDB

Product
Developers: InfluxData, Inc
Last Release Date: 2016/09/09
Technology: DBMS

InfluxDB is DBMS for storage, the analysis, visualization and data manipulation in a format of a time series.

On September 8, 2016 it became known of release of stable release of InfluxDB DBMS. DBMS can be used in the field of data analysis in real time, visualization of trends and history of events, identification of anomalies, control quality of work of service, etc.

Representation of InfluxDB, (2016)

The release of InfluxDB 1.0 designated the fact of stabilization of API, language of requests and a format of storage which will develop with preserving of backward compatibility now. The InfluxDB code is written in the Go language and is distributed under the license MIT[1].


Features of InfluxDB

  • Built in HTTP API, allowing to address to DBMS from web applications without additional server layers;
  • Structure declaration of the stored data does not require creation of special schemes, new fields can be created at any time;
  • To the saved data tags can become attached that allows to make flexible selections;
  • Support of SQL-like language of requests with rich opportunities of aggregation of data;
  • The answer returns in the JSON format;
  • Possibility of sending several requests within one appeal to DBMS;
  • Support of continuously executed requests (Continuous Query) which are automatically repeatedly executed through certain periods;
  • Support of a task of the policy of obsolescence of data allowing to define as long data should be stored;
  • Simplicity of installation and lack of external dependences;
  • High performance (hundreds of thousands of write operations per second) and a possibility of request processing in real time - the arriving data are indexed and at once become available to requests which runtime does not exceed 100 ms.
  • Support of creation of the failsafe and distributed cluster configurations (addition: the clustering is left only in commercial edition InfluxDB Enterprise);
  • Availability of the built-in web interface for administration of DBMS.

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