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InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

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Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

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Post by hbs »

scrollaway wrote: post #19
c2h5oh wrote: post #8

Tried using in production, failed really badly performance-wise (granted, it wasn't a good fit - cardinality was high). Replaced with PostgreSQL and I'm seeing 2+ orders of magnitude improvement on c4.large vs r4.8xlarge before..

Sounds like you were using the wrong tool for the job. Influx is not for high cardinality data.

The problem is the definition of high cardinality, the Gorilla paper talks about 2B metrics at FB but the hardware sizing page for influx shows a scary graph which basically kills any series cardinality above a million

https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.1/guides/hardware_si...

quite a difference!

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

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Post by rmchugh »

regecks wrote: post #6

Sweet. I had some 'getting oomkilled' problems with boundless queries back when I started using Influx for production early in the year, but it has been rock solid and performant since the later 0.1x releases. > Support for regular expressions on field keys in the SELECT clause. For example, SELECT /cpu_\d/ FROM cpu Woohoo! Very nice for making Grafana dashboards. > The admin UI (port 8083) is now officially deprecat…

I'm using it too! I find it really useful for experimenting with queries before I set them up in grafana.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

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Post by imglorp »

omn1 wrote: post #12
zenlot wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That seems to be their uncommunicated plan - to attract users to open source version and then remove features to offer just with enterprise product. They have done it with clustering support where after attracting people with promises they then removed it from open source version. Grafana as a replacement? It really does different things.

That sounds a bit unfair to me. In the end it's a company and they need to earn money somehow. Clustering is a very hard problem that takes a lot of manpower to get right.

They do deserve to be paid for their product, yes. And it's worth paying for.

They ill will was also deserved though, because when they changed business plans to exclude more features from the community version, they surprised and angered many users. Bait and switch is what got communicated, and trust violated, forcing projects to seek alternatives or modify their budgets.

This can be avoided by clearly communicating the roadmap of community vs enterprise features and sticking to it. But don't keep danging new features in free and then remove them unexpectedly.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

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Post by agentgt »

c2h5oh wrote: post #8

Tried using in production, failed really badly performance-wise (granted, it wasn't a good fit - cardinality was high). Replaced with PostgreSQL and I'm seeing 2+ orders of magnitude improvement on c4.large vs r4.8xlarge before..

In the same boat. I tried Druid as well which was almost a better solution but lacked the flexibility and maturity.

We are using Postgres + citus + some HLL. Our success is probably because we just have a lot more experience with Postgres.

I still haven't tried HBase though.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

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Post by aorth »

reacharavindh wrote: post #25
aorth wrote: post #20

I wanted to try it, but the downloads page presents a popup asking for your name and email address, and you cannot dismiss it. https://www.influxdata.com/downloads/

And what is wrong with it? Honestly curious.

I understand the tradeoff between them giving me free software and me giving them my contact information—the way they've done it is just so up front and in your face!

I'm pretty sure there is a web dev or user experience best practice about not spamming your users with "subscribe to us" and "like us on Facebook" dialogs immediately when they land on your page. And this one can't even be dismissed unless you subscribe!

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

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Post by daenney »

aorth wrote: post #26
reacharavindh wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what is wrong with it? Honestly curious.

I understand the tradeoff between them giving me free software and me giving them my contact information—the way they've done it is just so up front and in your face! I'm pretty sure there is a web dev or user experience best practice about not spamming your users with "subscribe to us" and "like us on Facebook" dialogs immediately when they land on your page. And this one can't even be dismissed unless you subscribe…

This is what I usually use sites like http://10minutemail.com for.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

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Post by daenney »

reacharavindh wrote: post #25
aorth wrote: post #20

I wanted to try it, but the downloads page presents a popup asking for your name and email address, and you cannot dismiss it. https://www.influxdata.com/downloads/

And what is wrong with it? Honestly curious.

As far as I'm concerned I shouldn't have to give up my contact details in order to download FOSS software.

Thankfully in this case I can just go build the thing myself but these kind of sign up walls without a way to opt out of them do annoy me.

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

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Post by reacharavindh »

daenney wrote: post #28
reacharavindh wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what is wrong with it? Honestly curious.

As far as I'm concerned I shouldn't have to give up my contact details in order to download FOSS software. Thankfully in this case I can just go build the thing myself but these kind of sign up walls without a way to opt out of them do annoy me.

Yes, you could build the thing yourself.

I'm all for protecting privacy, but, Don't you think it is reasonable for a FOSS project/company to collect basic stats on their audience? They aren't even forcing you to give up your identity. Just an email address, which could be something that don't particularly identify you, while they get unique user stats. You could obviously mark them as Spam, if they do end up spamming you..

Re: InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality

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Post by skeptic2718 »

daenney wrote: post #27
aorth wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand the tradeoff between them giving me free software and me giving them my contact information—the way they've done it is just so up front and in your face! I'm pretty sure there is a web dev or user experience best practice about not spamming your users with "subscribe to us" and "like us on Facebook" dialogs immediately when they land on your page. And this one can't even be dismissed unless you subscribe…

This is what I usually use sites like http://10minutemail.com for.

Or in this specific case, just enter garbage in the form.
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