InfluxDB 3 Enterprise is now free for at-home use, offering capabilities previously limited to InfluxDB 3 Core. The new tier provides a rate-limited version of the full enterprise features, allowing users to write and query data across longer periods. This change addresses concerns from open-source users who require these capabilities. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise includes a compactor that rewrites files into larger blocks of time, enabling faster query response times on any time range spanning longer than an hour. The product offers a compelling set of features for real-time and recent data storage and querying, making it suitable as a data collector, ETL tool, or full historical time series database. This change is part of InfluxDB's business model, allowing the company to continue developing open-source projects like InfluxDB 3 Core while contributing to other initiatives in Apache DataFusion and related technologies.