InfluxDB has deployed its next-generation storage engine built on InfluxDB IOx, a cloud-native, real-time, columnar database optimized for time series data. The new storage engine is a massive leap forward for the core database technology, with unlimited scale and SQL query capabilities. It represents the largest leap forward since introducing TSM storage engine in 2016, bringing metric data and event data into a single database core. InfluxDB IOx is built in Rust on top of Apache Arrow and DataFusion, providing high-performance systems software and interoperability with a wider group of developers. The new storage engine lifts cardinality limits completely, allowing users to write any kind of event data with infinite cardinality and slice-and-dice data on any dimension without sacrificing performance. It also supports SQL natively, enabling fast analytical queries across high-cardinality data.