Good luck on your journey Todd & Paul!
thanks!
Errplane (YC W13) Snags $8.1M for Open-Source InfluxDB Time Database
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Re: Errplane (YC W13) Snags $8.1M for Open-Source InfluxDB Time Database
#12I still don't completely grasp what this is. Is it actually a database application that is specifically built to scale-out (shard) time series data?
Re: Errplane (YC W13) Snags $8.1M for Open-Source InfluxDB Time Database
#13Been flowing InfluxDB for sometime now and used it to do some analytics work few times. Loved it and will use again every chance i get. Also plus points for being written in clean idiomatic Go.
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#14One 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!
Congrats Paul and Todd!
Re: Errplane (YC W13) Snags $8.1M for Open-Source InfluxDB Time Database
#15I still don't completely grasp what this is. Is it actually a database application that is specifically built to scale-out (shard) time series data?
In short no. In long, there have been attempts mostly failed ones. The current industry standard is making a big NAS and putting paths to log files in an SQL database, and make a nice java front end to chop up logs by time stamp.
The idea is from a testing perspective (I do data acquisition and analysis for test systems), is when a part breaks, or something critical in your test happens.
You want to find the source of failure. Often times analyzing every single data point is pointless, especially after a 10 hour test with 100 points per second per channel. And you only want to see ~2 minutes of data.
How most systems work is you need to open up a measurement file, and either use a stand alone tool to chop this (and pray it doesn't corrupt your measurement file). Or from what I understand Influx simply lets you query time code to time code and return channels via pattern matching within that time span.
Very simple.
Data management is another big issue. A single day's worth of road test can be ~5-10TB per vehicle (2 months of testing + 20 vehicle fleet). Also this total is project to like all things double every year -_-'
Also as far as I understand Influx doesn't support sound or video. Which is really what aerospace and automotive are looking for.
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#16Oh that's great news! I've been using Influx for about a year know and I'm really happy with it already. Hopefully the upcoming version 0.9 with BoltDB will even better than the current storage engines.
I'm also contributing to one of the drivers and most of the time it has been fun using it.
@Paul, are you still going to release a preview of 0.9 in december or is it delayed to celebrate the news? ;)
Re: Errplane (YC W13) Snags $8.1M for Open-Source InfluxDB Time Database
#17Oh that's great news! I've been using Influx for about a year know and I'm really happy with it already. Hopefully the upcoming version 0.9 with BoltDB will even better than the current storage engines. I'm also contributing to one of the drivers and most of the time it has been fun using it. @Paul, are you still going to release a preview of 0.9 in december or is it delayed to celebrate the news? ;)
We're trying to get the 0.9.0 previews out as quickly as possible. We're trying to get something out for testing by the end of the year, but there's still a lot to do.
In software development there are lies, damn lies, and timeline estimates ;)
Re: Errplane (YC W13) Snags $8.1M for Open-Source InfluxDB Time Database
#18I still don't completely grasp what this is. Is it actually a database application that is specifically built to scale-out (shard) time series data?
In short no. In long, there have been attempts mostly failed ones. The current industry standard is making a big NAS and putting paths to log files in an SQL database, and make a nice java front end to chop up logs by time stamp. The idea is from a testing perspective (I do data acquisition and analysis for test systems), is when a part breaks, or something critical in your test happens. You want to find the source o…
The upcoming version will have support for raw byte values. Then you'll be able to query those out based on tagged metadata and the time.
Custom processing against raw byte values (and other custom functions) should come sometime next year.
Re: Errplane (YC W13) Snags $8.1M for Open-Source InfluxDB Time Database
#19Oh that's great news! I've been using Influx for about a year know and I'm really happy with it already. Hopefully the upcoming version 0.9 with BoltDB will even better than the current storage engines. I'm also contributing to one of the drivers and most of the time it has been fun using it. @Paul, are you still going to release a preview of 0.9 in december or is it delayed to celebrate the news? ;)
We're trying to get the 0.9.0 previews out as quickly as possible. We're trying to get something out for testing by the end of the year, but there's still a lot to do. In software development there are lies, damn lies, and timeline estimates ;)
I'm glad I'm not the only one facing those challenges!
Well, I'd be happy if you guys make it in mid January.
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