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We too started off with influx but it wasn't a good fit mainly due to use having issues with high cardinality. I don't know if this is still the case with current implementations, but what it boils down to is if your data is searchable by a "user_id" really look elsewhere. That might be an oversimplification but that's the gist of it.

I was fully ready to just roll my own partitioned table and gave TimescaleDB a shot. It worked well. There was a bug we ran into, but it was an existing one documented on github and was addressed pretty quickly.

I still like influx, and would use it again but beware of the cardinality issues.




If you have cardinality issues in InfluxDB, then just substitute InfluxDB with VictoriaMetrics :) [1]

[1] https://medium.com/@valyala/insert-benchmarks-with-inch-infl...




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