Category: Database, Data, Kubernetes, Docker

Conventional databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB are great at safekeeping the state of your system in a tabular or document format, but what about time-dependent data: systems metrics, IoT device measurement or application state change? InfluxData provides not only the database, but also tools to ingest, transform and visualize your data.

On the other hand, waiting for the batch size to be reached means that the data is still in memory in your application and not in the database.

You have the opportunity to insert data and visualize it in the InfluxDB UI, from which you can quickly build your queries and then use the data in your application. In sum, you can insert data and retrieve it in the same data structure to use in your application.

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