Funny, I started using InfluxDB in several projects, but threw it out immediately when TimescaleDB appeared because I thought TSDB seemed a lot more solid and well-designed. Influx seemed much more of a quick hack in comparison - I did not like the (Python?) SDK or the docs, and operational-wise it felt a little flaky compared to TimescaleDB. A disclaimer is that I'm very familiar w PostgreSQL since many years back, so TSDB operations felt very intuitive to me while Influx was all new stuff - that probably made a difference.