InfluxDB Cloud
influxdata.com/products/influxdb-cloudBuild Difficulty: 4/5
A few focused days to build a solid replacement
Collect, store, and analyze all time series data in a fully managed database
How to Replace InfluxDB CloudOverview
Features
18 features across 11 categories
Cost Optimization(1)
Achieves 90% reduction in storage costs compared to InfluxDB Open Source
Data Collection(1)
Uses Telegraf, a plugin-driven server agent with over 300 plugins written in Go, to collect time series data from databases, applications, systems, and IoT sensors with minimal memory footprint
Data Management(1)
Collect, analyze, and store metric, event, and tracing data to open new use cases and simplify data pipelines
Deployment(1)
InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated offers a single tenant cluster with capacity-based pricing and support included
Developer Tools(2)
Access InfluxDB Cloud via powerful client libraries for Arduino, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Node.js, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Scala, and Swift
Programmatic access to InfluxDB Cloud through a robust set of APIs common across InfluxDB Open Source and Cloud allowing code to run locally or against the database as a service
Integration(2)
Connect to Google Data Studio and other BI or data warehouses with open source ODBC and JDBC plugins based on Flight SQL
Interoperable with data ecosystems using Apache Parquet, an open data interchange format allowing use of data science tools to operate directly on Parquet files for machine learning or analytical tasks
Performance(4)
Provides 100x faster queries for high cardinality data compared to InfluxDB Open Source
Provides 45x better write throughput compared to InfluxDB Open Source
Delivers 45x faster queries for recent data compared to InfluxDB Open Source
Work with leading-edge data by keeping live and recently queried data in hot storage tier, built using Apache Arrow, an in-memory columnar format optimized for speed
Pricing(1)
Free to start with InfluxDB Cloud Serverless, only paying for what you use
Query(2)
Explore and analyze data using SQL and community-driven Apache Arrow Flight SQL-compatible libraries
Easy learning curve with native SQL support for queries with an intuitive visual script editor that provides multiple ways to build and write SQL
Scalability(2)
InfluxDB Cloud Serverless provides automatic, elastic scaling that adjusts resources based on demand
Ingest high volume and high cardinality data without impacting performance and continuously ingest, transform, and analyze hundreds of millions of time series data points per second
Storage(1)
High compression storage using Apache Parquet file format that persists data to cloud object store, saving more data in less space while reducing costs
Pricing
InfluxDB Cloud Serverless
Popular- ✓Automatic elastic scaling
- ✓Pay only for what you use
- ✓Full feature set
InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated
- ✓Single tenant cluster
- ✓Capacity-based pricing
- ✓Support included
Cost Calculator
Pricing data not available for InfluxDB Cloud. Check their website for current pricing.
Build vs Buy
Should you build a InfluxDB Cloud alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 18 features.
Buy InfluxDB Cloud
Better ValueBuild Your Own
Buying InfluxDB Cloud saves ~$18,480 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 18 features and a BuildScore of 4/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
6 known integrations