InfluxDB: The Time-Series Engine Rebuilt in Rust — and the Open/Closed Split You Must Know
InfluxDB 3 Core is a 31k-star, MIT/Apache-2.0 time-series engine written in Rust on the Arrow/DataFusion/Parquet stack. A 5,000-word teardown of the v3 rewrite, the diskless object-storage architecture, line-protocol ingest, the built-in Python processing engine, the hard split between open-source Core and closed-source Enterprise, and exactly where your telemetry lands.