InfluxDB v0.9.0 release update
This is an update to the v0.9.0 release plan I posted a month ago. The short answer is: it’s not released or ready yet, but we’re making great progress. We would rather disappoint you on a release date than disappoint you...
InfluxDB v0.9.0 Release Plan
Happy April 1st everyone! As you can see, March has come and gone and we haven’t yet released the official version of 0.9.0 of InfluxDB. Let’s call this our elaborate April fool’s joke. Seriously though, we’re very hard at work on...
InfluxDB v0.9.0-rc4 released, now with tags and more unicorns
After months of hard work we’re very excited to announce the first early testing build of InfluxDB v0.9.0, 0.9.0-rc4 (latest here). There are some details on the 0.9.0 release in the changelog, but this deserves a much larger post. We’ve added...
Clustering, tags, and enhancements to come in 0.9.0
We’ve been heads down working on InfluxDB v0.9.0 for a while and I’d like to update the community on what we’re working on and what the goals are for the upcoming release. It started out as a release to completely rewrite...
One year of InfluxDB and the road to 1.0
I’m sitting in a Starbucks in Tokyo as I write this. I’m here because Shuhei Tanuma, a developer at GREE, has invited me to give a talk about our experiences developing InfluxDB in Golang at a GREE tech event. Shuhei is...
Benchmarking LevelDB vs. RocksDB vs. HyperLevelDB vs. LMDB Performance for InfluxDB
Warning! Please note that this blog is over 1 year old, please review the latest on InfluxDB and product comparison For quite some time we’ve wanted to test the performance of different storage engines for our use case with InfluxDB. We...
Free Trial for InfluxDB Hosting and Updated Documentation
Today we’re announcing managed hosting of InfluxDB and Grafana (the excellent open source dashboarding solution)! Plans start at just $39 per month for a single node and an extra $49 per month for each additional node. Each InfluxDB node has 10GB...
Java is the COBOL of my generation and Go is its successor (and other reflections after GopherCon)
Last week I attended GopherCon in Denver, the first ever Golang conference. There were fantastic talks on Go and various projects, but for me the most exciting thing about the conference was meeting enthusiastic people in this nascent developer community. I...
InfluxDB v0.5.0 ready for production
InfluxDB version 0.5.0 has been released and is ready for production! Well, ready for production depending on your comfort level. There are still issues and features we want to address. However, there are no known bugs that cause a crash or...
InfluxDB v0.5.0-rc1 released with all new clustering and features
InfluxDB version 0.5.0-rc1 is out! This release adds significant improvements to clustering, eviction of old data, and 99.99th percentile write performance. We’ve also added a cool new feature to continuous queries and given the admin interface some love. The goal of...