Time Series DB's: InfluxDB and the TICK stack (Paul Dix)

<p>Listen to HashiCast: <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/hashicast/episode-5-paul-dix-influxdb-PGC9o3DmNyc/">https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/hashicast/episode-5-paul-dix-influxdb-PGC9o3DmNyc/</a> (12 mins in)</p><p><strong>Benefits of TS DBs:</strong></p><ul> <li> <strong>Compression</strong> for timestamps</li> <li> <strong>Write throughput </strong>because append-only writes</li> <li> <strong>Downsampling</strong> high precision for 7 days, then 10min summarizations for 3 months, then 1hr summaries</li> <li> <strong>Query patterns</strong> - Instead of SQL, Influx uses <a href="https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.8/query_language/">InfluxQL</a> </li> </ul><p><br>More on the TICK stack: https://docs.influxdata.com/</p>