It’s About Time for Time Series Databases

Re:It’s About Time for Time Series Databases by scrollaway on Thursday January 25, 2018 @12:02PM (#16232384)

I think you're saying a lot more about Oracle than about Influx :)

I also am using Influx at my company and the experience is not that great, mostly due to it being immature yes. For example, I currently have runaway disk usage and I have no way to know what table is using it. So I have to choose between losing data or continuously increasing storage.

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Re:It’s About Time for Time Series Databases by amyjess on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:46PM (#16234994)

One bit of immaturity I just remembered: InfluxDB does a terrible job of telling you when you've fat-fingered a query. You can select from a series that doesn't exist or reference a tag that doesn't exist inside a 'where' clause, and InfluxDB will happily return 0 results instead of giving an error.

I've spent some time trying to figure out why I'm not getting data, and it turns out that it was because I typoed the name of the series.

I still like Influx though, warts and all.

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