UI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/15/2020

"Really good time series database"

4/5

What do you like best about InfluxDB?

Load the database in background while using your system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InfluxDB?

Less options available to capture the data in database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JY

Jonathan Y.

CEO & Co-Founder

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/20/2018

"Solid Time Series DB!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about InfluxDB?

This DB sets up time series data in a way that I've always dreamed of making myself - but does it better! You start by filling the database with as much data as possible, that you never intend directly query. Then you setup some reduction policies so that that data gets downsampled into something that is queried at an application/reporting level, with a significantly downsampled dataset. Then, depending on your needs, you can set expiration for your data so that big massive data insert you originally setup doesn't stick around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InfluxDB?

Getting started is a little bit rough. There is a lot of good articles, but it simply requires you to dive into their deep end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:

If you need a Time series Database that just works, pick InfluxDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use InfluxDB to store systems analytics, user data, and server resource monitoring. We also use it for business analytics for how our users consume our platform. All on 1 machine, for now. We are looking to create a cluster soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DE

Dylan E.

Security Officer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/16/2018

"Great time series database with an easy to usy to use syntax"

4.5/5

What do you like best about InfluxDB?

The syntax is intuitive and easy to learn, as it is very similar to standard SQL queries. Learning the different aggregations and advanced features takes some time, but afterwards they are very easy to use. Downsampling data points to a lower resolution and deletion of older data can be automated very easily and reliably. The data compression is amazing (among the best compared to other time series databases), with a single data point with timestamp generally being less than 10 bytes in total for long-term storage and they are continuously updating the storage engine for even better compression. Integration with other applications in the TICK stack is easy and seamless and allows for even more advanced manipulation of the data. Documentation is Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InfluxDB?

Debugging the application to determine optimal configuration settings for performance/load is tricky and the documentation regarding this is lacking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:

Consider your database design carefully to minimize cardinality, since it can affect the performance of the system in a major way if this is designed improperly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use InfluxDB as our main time series database, holding data written from 100s of sources. This data can then be manipulated and requested back for business intelligence/machine optimization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UC

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/19/2018

"Does not scale"

1.5/5

What do you like best about InfluxDB?

Flexibility -- you can add database columns on-the-fly at run-time.

UDP or TCP -- go with UDP for efficiency or TCP for guaranteed delivery.

Easy time series data -- that's what it's made for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InfluxDB?

Poor performance -- queries to check data would often timeout and fail.

Limited SQL -- very limited SQL syntax was frustrating -- queries from Internet could not be copied and pasted.

Unreliable -- could not handle all of are data, so we throttled and threw away most of the data, defeating the purpose.

Too flexible -- too easy to accidentally create duplicate columns. It's like going back to BASIC programming days where variables don't have to be declared. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:

Be sure it is fit for your purpose and can handle enough data before you commit to the tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used it for logging information from mobile apps. Arguably it is not a logging product, but a series of log messages is a time series as far as I am concerned.

The logs did help us troubleshoot problems -- when we could get the SQL syntax to work and not time out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/7/2018

"A good choice for timeseries data"

3.5/5

What do you like best about InfluxDB?

The most thing I liked was the ability to store very big timeseries data in very efficient way. In my case, we stored relatively big data with single node which uses casual compute and storage resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InfluxDB?

Although influxdb core is open source and free, using it in production and at scale will require a very expensive license. For example, clusters are only available in InfluxEnterprise which was costy for us in early development phase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:

Influxdb is designed to store timeseries data, not anything else. If you data nature is a timeseris that can be displayed in line graphs so go for influxdb, otherwise it may not be the best fit. Influxdb don't have *good* support for strings, and no support for booleans nor nested documents. So double check your data is a timeseries, and you will require lots of time-based queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to store our infrastructure health and usage metrics. The most benefit in this use-case was the good support for tool-chains. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YB

Yves B.

Senior Vice President

Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/17/2018

"Influx DB for operational monitoring "

4/5

What do you like best about InfluxDB?

Easy to setup and customize, no performance issue so far (monitoring millions of events daily).

Has proven to scale without having to resort to technical wizardry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InfluxDB?

Nothing. INFLUX DB does what it is supposed to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PT

Praveen Reddy T.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/1/2018

"awsome time serise database "

5/5

What do you like best about InfluxDB?

linfluxdb has a greate capability to write huge data and very good speeds while reading data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InfluxDB?

cluster features are not available in the community edition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LH

Lee H.

Founder & CTO

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/12/2017

"My most favourite time series database ever!"

5/5

What do you like best about InfluxDB?

Easy deployment, single binary unbeatable. Compared with Graphite which was state of the art when I started using InfluxDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InfluxDB?

Pseudo-SQL syntax sometimes tricky because of perceived faux familiarity. Also in it's usual habitat (docker container) the REPL has no autocomplete or tab completion which can make editing queries tricky. Fortunately this doesn't have to be done much, as most people with use Grafana in front of it most of the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering InfluxDB:

Look beyond the fact that the vendor wants you to use their whole stack. Their TICK stack has strenghts and weaknesses. InfluxDB coupled with Grafana works wonderfully, and Telegraf is a good "metrics collector" too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is InfluxDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Metrics data in general (alerting via Grafana) and also as principle data store of time series data which is shared with customers via our web application. In that regard, for some of our data InfluxDB is a primary data store for business critical operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NH

Nicholas H.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/20/2018

"Amazing"

5/5

What do you like best about InfluxDB?

How easy it is to configure and get running Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InfluxDB?

The lack of joins across measurements can be annoying at times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MW

Matt W.

CTO

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/18/2017

"I have been fairly disappointed in InfluxDB"

2.5/5

What do you like best about InfluxDB?

How easy it is to pump data into InfluxDB, query it, and downsample it.

The query language is great, intuituve, and well thought out.

It is fairly easy to install, configure, and get working out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about InfluxDB?

Performance. I have very little data (100k points) on an Amazon EC2 t2.medium instance (below recommendations, but I have very little data) and when I query for data it crushes the CPU. And is very slow to return results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.