Thoughts on Time-series Databases

Re:Thoughts on Time-series Databases by Mahn on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @05:43PM (#9808610)

Just for the record, InfluxDB 0.9 seems to actually be production ready now. Though it doesn't look there's an easy way to migrate to it yet from 0.8.

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Re:Thoughts on Time-series Databases by sciurus on Thursday July 02, 2015 @07:56PM (#9822522)

Based on the changes in 0.9.1, there's no way that 0.9 was production ready and I'd be very cautious about using it.

https://influxdb.com/blog/2015/07/02/InfluxDB-0_9_1-and-Tele...

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Re:Thoughts on Time-series Databases by Kirth on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @04:02AM (#9810530)

"Seems to be", sure. Sinks like a tanker when you try to actually use it, though. None of the software libraries have been updated for 0.9 yet.

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Re:Thoughts on Time-series Databases by Mahn on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @10:25AM (#9811995)

> Sinks like a tanker when you try to actually use it

Can you name some examples of this besides the CPU authentication bug? Honest question, I'm considering adding InfluxDB to our stack so I'm genuinely curious.

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Re:Thoughts on Time-series Databases by Kirth on Monday July 06, 2015 @08:51AM (#9838710)

We've had issues with Influx being a massive resource hog. Not properly persisting data to disk. They openly admit that Influx isn't built to gracefully recover from crashes, and that you will lose data.

This by itself wouldn't be a problem for us. But when you're inserting data points, the entire damn thing seems to become unresponsive. Admin UI freezing, http endpoint no longer responding to queries, ...

I know this product is relatively young and your mileage may vary. They have a long way to go.

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Re:Thoughts on Time-series Databases by simonpantzare on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @04:08AM (#9810552)

Authentication in 0.9 has a high CPU penalty right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9810538.

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