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The 5Ws (and 1H) of the New InfluxDB Cloud
Some things are inevitable, like Thanos, paying taxes, and change. While it would be nice to simply snap our fingers and deliver new products, things aren’t so simple in the real world. InfluxDB has been the leading time series database since...
Announcing the General Availability of Our New High-Performance Time Series Engine in InfluxDB Cloud
Back in October 2022, our Founder and CTO Paul Dix announced the limited release of InfluxDB IOx, our new database engine. After several months of beta testing, we’re excited to announce the next phase of our database engine: general availability. As...
Update: Linux Package Signing Key Rotation
UPDATE 2023-01-26: As of 2023-01-26, InfluxData’s Linux packaging signing key has been rotated. Users should update their configuration to use the new key. Original 2023-01-24: On January 4th, CircleCI issued an alert recommending that all CircleCI users rotate their secrets. InfluxData...
SQL Server Timestamps: A Detailed Introduction
Accurate data is one of the most important aspects of any organizational function. It helps in decision-making and planning, and for most businesses, it also helps in generating revenue. The data can be anything from a list of clients and products...
Python Time Series Forecasting Tutorial
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. A consequence of living in a rapidly changing society is that the state of all systems changes just as rapidly, and with that comes inconsistencies in...
A Comprehensive Guide to Using D3.js in React
One of the most flexible and powerful ways to visualize data is through D3.js. As a React developer, you can use Data-Driven Documents (D3) to enhance the presentation of your applications that take advantage of data. This guide will show you...
Apache Arrow Basics: Coding with Apache Arrow Python
So by now, you are probably aware that InfluxData has been busy building the next generation of the InfluxDB storage engine. If you dig a little deeper, you will start to uncover some concepts that might be foreign to you: Apache...
How Apache Arrow is Changing the Big Data Ecosystem
This article was originally published in The New Stack and is reposted here with permission. Arrow makes analytics workloads more efficient for modern CPU and GPU hardware, which makes working with large data sets easier and less costly. One of the...
What Is a Column Database and When Should You Use One?
If you are working with large amounts of data that will primarily be used for analytics, a column database might be a good option. There are a lot of different options when it comes to choosing a database for your application....
An Introduction to Apache Superset: An Open Source BI solution
With native SQL support coming to InfluxDB, we can broaden the scope of developer tools used to analyze and visualize our time series data. One of these tools is Apache Superset. So let’s break down the basics of what Superset is,...