This talk is part of the Database Building Blocks Seminar Series. Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95283696582 (Passcode 787637) Read More

I'll talk about the design of InfluxDB IOx, the future core of InfluxDB, an open source time series database. It's an in-memory columnar database that uses object storage for persistence. It's written in Rust and is built on top of Apache Arrow. Unlike previous versions of InfluxDB, IOx supports standards compliant SQL and the Postgres dialect in particular. This is... Read More

InfluxDB is an open source time series database written in Go. This talk will introduce how InfluxDB structures time series data and what makes it different from other use cases like OLTP. We'll then go into the internals of the storage engine we wrote from scratch, the Time Structured Merge Tree, heavily inspired by LSM trees. In addition to the... Read More