CTO of @InfluxDB (YC W13), founder of NYC Machine Learning, series editor for Addison Wesley's Data & Analytics, author of Service Oriented Design with Ruby.
Oct 26, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Today is a big day @InfluxDB. We're announcing the release of InfluxDB IOx, the new core of the database written in #rustlang and built with @ApacheArrow. It delivers infinite cardinality, tiered data storage, SQL compatibility and so much more. Here's some of the background...
When we released #InfluxDB 1.0 in 2016, it was written in #golang and had a custom storage engine we built from scratch that was specifically optimized for metrics workloads. We called it the Time Structured Merge Tree (or TSM for short).