Company
Date Published
Author
Mark Herring
Word count
650
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

InfluxData continues to maintain its leadership position in the rapidly growing time series database category, with a 49% increase in popularity over the past 12 months and a significant lead over its closest competitor. According to DB-Engines' latest results, InfluxDB is outpacing the competition with its user base more than three times larger than the nearest competitor. The growth of the time series database category is being fueled by increased adoption of Kubernetes, containerization, IoT sensor data, and the need for a consolidated metrics and events platform. InfluxData's unique features enable customers to quickly build monitoring, alerting, and notification applications, as well as real-time analytics applications that support streaming data and anomaly detection. With over 400 customers across various industries, including manufacturing, financial services, energy, and telecommunications, InfluxData is pioneering the shift to time series in a modern metrics and events platform, empowering developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications faster, easier, and to scale.