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InfluxDB Clustered, the self-managed, open source distributed time-series database for on-premises and private cloud deployments from InfluxData, is now generally available.
InfluxDB Clustered is expected to replace the company’s older InfluxDB Enterprise offering and is built on its next-generation time-series engine that supports SQL queries. Other versions of the database with the same engine, including InfluxDB Cloud Serverless and InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated, were released earlier.
Another version of the database, dubbed InfluxDB 3.0 Edge and aimed at delivering a time-series database for local or edge deployment, is expected to be released this year, the company said.
Compared to InfluxDB Enterprise, InfluxDB Clustered can process queries at least 100 times faster on high-cardinality data, the company said, adding that the Clustered version can also ingest data 45 times faster than the Enterprise edition.
Cardinality in a database management system can be defined as the number of unique sets of data stored in a database. The more cardinality is allowed, the more a database can scale.
The new version also offers a 90% reduction in storage costs, enabled by a low-cost object store, separation of compute and storage, and data compression, the company said.
In addition, InfluxDB Clustered offers enterprise-grade security and compliance features, including encryption of data
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