InfluxDB

Overview

InfluxDB is an open source time series database developed by the company InfluxData. As all time series databases, it is optimized for storage and retrieval of time series data in fields such as operations monitoring, application metrics, Internet of Things, and real-time analytics. In fact, InfluxDB data are very similar to Tridium Niagara histories: timestamps, values and some extra tags / flags.

InfluxDB is completely free for commercial purposes. It could be hosted on premises, on any public cloud or on a serverless InfluxCloud platform. And with a free tier available on InfluxCloud, you can register and get it running within minutes.

InfluxDB comes with script like language Flux designed for querying, analyzing, and acting on data. It has a powerful UI for building custom dashboards to visualize your data. Finally, there is Telegraf – a server agent for collecting and sending metrics and events from databases, systems, and IoT sensors. There are 200+ plugins available, allowing to collect data from all kinds of sources: weather services, IoT devices, automation protocols, cloud databases, hardware metrics etc.

Key features

• Works with InfluxDB v2.0 and higher
• Communicates with InfluxDB hosted locally, remotely, on public cloud or as a serverless platform
• Automatically discovers organizations, buckets, measurements and fields
• Imports time series data from InfluxDB into Niagara histories
• Exports Niagara histories into InfluxDB
• Supports all formats of data for import and export: float, integer, string, boolean
• Uses Flux queries and line protocol