Overview
InfluxDB Cloud Serverless is an elastic, scalable, fully managed time series database that is built for real-time analytical workloads. Built as a cloud-native, elastic serverless platform exclusively on AWS, InfluxDB Cloud Serverless is ideal for developers who want to start building small and scale their time series workload as their business grows over time. Its usage based pricing allows users the flexibility to pay for just what they use and not worry about paying for any infrastructure or scaling capacity. It also natively provides query support for both SQL and InfluxQL, a custom SQL-like query language with added support for time-based functions.
Under the hood, InfluxDB Cloud Serverless is powered by InfluxDB 3.0, which brings the following benefits to users:
- 100x faster queries on high-cardinality data with powerful analytics performance that independently scales ingest and query.
- 45x faster data ingest enables real-time analytics on leading-edge data.
- 90 percent reduction in storage costs enabled by low-cost object store and separation of compute and storage combined with best-in-category data compression.
- Highest-grade security and compliance with encryption of data in transit and at rest with private networking options and single sign-on (SSO). InfluxDB Cloud Serverless has also achieved certifications for SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and ISO/IEC 27018:2019.
Use cases include:
- Infrastructure & Application Monitoring: Perform real-time analytics of metrics, events, and traces in a single datastore to ensure the performance of your entire stack.
- IoT Analytics: Gain real-time insights on IoT sensor data to better understand customer usage and device health.
- Real-time analytics: Get analytics in real-time for recent edge of data to power higher applications and automation.
Highlights
- No infrastructure to provision. Easy to get started. Usage based pricing and elastic scale ensures you can start small and scale as you grow.
- Columnar real-time analytics database built with Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet that enables sub-second query responses for recent edge of data. Users can run high performance analytics queries using SQL and InfluxQL.
- Efficiently ingest time stamped data at scale from millions of data sources using Telegraf, an open source data collector with a library of 300+ out-of-box plugins or using a set of client libraries.
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Pricing
Dimension | Cost/unit |
|---|---|
Data In (Price per 10MB of data written) | $0.025 |
Storage (Price per GB-Hour of data stored) | $0.002 |
Query Count (Price per 100 queries and tasks run) | $0.012 |
Data Out (Price per GB of data transfer out) | $0.09 |
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InfluxDB Cloud is a usage-based service and does not currently offer refunds.
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From Support to Training to Professional Services, the InfluxData services team is available to help. Whether you are a new customer looking to get started on the right path or a long-standing customer looking to optimize a production deployment or get help with a question, the experts at InfluxData can guide you with best practices and context-specific assistance. https://www.influxdata.com/products/services/ Please refer to the InfluxData support policy for more information:
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does not work as expected
This review does not judge the InfluxDB product itself, but this AWS Marketplace offering.
For our company, we did not manage to get this product working. Creating the AWS Marketplace linked account at InfluxData always failed with a 500 server error at Influx, resulting in a free-only account, which was not fully functional.
Even working for 4 weeks on this topic together with the influx support team, with several emails and web-meetings, did not help. The influx development team could not identify and solve the issues.
Best Time-series database
Navigating the Landscape of Time-Series Databases
While InfluxDB offers powerful capabilities, new users might encounter a learning curve, especially when mastering the specifics of InfluxQL and navigating the intricacies of the platform.
Clarity in Documentation:
The documentation, although comprehensive, could benefit from enhanced clarity in certain sections. Improvements in this area would contribute to a more user-friendly onboarding process.
Complexity in High-Cardinality Scenarios:
In scenarios with high cardinality, complexities may arise, necessitating careful consideration and optimization to ensure optimal performance.