InfluxData is killing InfluxDB with their changes. Their v1->v2->v3 changes are beyond insane. They revealed that flux is deprecated in v3, their main selling point for v2. In database domain you would like stability not breaking change in every 2-3 years. See <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37206194">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37206194</a>
InfluxData are masters at Pivots looking for product market fit, though no clear migration path for users of old versions must be very concerning for its customers.<p>Also after reading this announcement It is not clear for me what will actually be in that Open Source version ? In the past no Open Source high availability made Open Source only usable for toy workloads.
I was just evaluating InfluxDB yesterday for a commercial data streaming pipeline, but there are too many different names and versions that it is VERY unclear what's what, and what is actually available.
Influx 1.8 was and still is great. With 2.x and InfluxData shoving ridiculously slow Flux down people's throats on every step they managed to drive away much of their user base.<p>I just hope 3.0 will bring back more focus on query performance and simplicity.
Not that it matters, but I would be happiest if you just picked up InfluxDB 1.8.x, Kapacitor, and Chronograf again.<p>Really painful to see you guys abandon a great product lineup for the "we made our our programming language too!!!" hype train that was the hot thing 5-6 hypecycles ago. In the future, just stay off the hype wagon and stick to the core product.<p>The TICK stack was one of the coolest pieces of software developed and it is just unfortunate it was abandoned.
One thing that isn’t clear to me at all, is – what time scales is Edge expected to be suitable for? If I’m a tracking my sensors at home and storing them for a year and then progressively downsampling for successive years (i.e. by no means "Big Data") – is Edge suitable for me or do I need to look for an alternative? I don’t think the blog post explained this well, perhaps exactly because they're knowingly alienating this sort of the user base?
searching, it works: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37598727">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37598727</a> (dupe rage aside, that one was submitted by and has the post author hanging out in the thread)
tl;dr:<p>InfluxDB Edge: MIT<p>InfluxDB Community: "free to use", not FOSS?, unclear what the licensing is, seems like you're a beta tester for InfluxDB<p>InfluxDB: Not free to use, paid offering