Errplane (YC W13) Snags $8.1M for Open-Source InfluxDB Time Database

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Post by toddpersen » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 5:04 PM UTC

Errplane (YC W13) Snags $8.1M for Open-Source InfluxDB Time Database
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Post by kanwisher » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 5:26 PM UTC

Looks like some healthy competition to graphite

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Post by munimkazia » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 5:30 PM UTC

Great news for them. I built a dashboard a few months ago using graphs which pull data from InfluxDB and I had a lot of fun with it. To me, it seem a whole lot easier to use than Graphite.

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Post by vj44 » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

Good luck on your journey Todd & Paul!

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Post by pauldix » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 5:37 PM UTC

One of the founders here. Thanks to the community for all the support and encouragement. We couldn't have gotten this far without people getting excited about our software. 2015 is going to be a great year for open source time series databases!

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Post by ridruejo » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 5:37 PM UTC

The underlying technology is pretty cool and the team behind it is quite smart, glad to see they are being successful.

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Post by nwatson » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

Already been done in 2001-2004: Sensage (http://www.sensage.com/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensage), followed by Vertica, etc. All the columnar-storage big-table timestamped data collectors and data aggregators. Sensage failed at the market. Splunk succeeded, perhaps with a different underlying data storage model, but certainly with great marketing.

What's different about InfluxDB?

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Post by mrkurt » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 5:42 PM UTC

InfluxDB is one of our favorite database (we host and run open source DBs ...). Most people can get more from their data by recognizing time series problems, and it's nice to have an easily accessible DB to put that sort of information into.

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Post by pauldix » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 5:55 PM UTC

nwatson wrote: post #8

Already been done in 2001-2004: Sensage ( http://www.sensage.com/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensage ), followed by Vertica, etc. All the columnar-storage big-table timestamped data collectors and data aggregators. Sensage failed at the market. Splunk succeeded, perhaps with a different underlying data storage model, but certainly with great marketing. What's different about InfluxDB?

I'm not familiar with Sensage and I know of Vertica. Open source is a key difference. Developers want to build their products and careers on open tools and we want to help them do it when it comes to time series data.

There will be more as we go along. Our project is a year old and had 2-3 people working on it for most of the time.