InfluxDB 3.0 has been designed to balance data availability and usability with storage costs, allowing users to keep large volumes of historical data without sacrificing data fidelity or storage expenses. The database uses Parquet files as its underlying file storage, achieving significant compression gains and reducing storage requirements on disk. In a distributed environment, InfluxDB can store these files in inexpensive object storage while maintaining high-performance querying capabilities, effectively eliminating trade-offs between data costs, availability, and fidelity. According to real-world customer experiences, InfluxDB 3.0 has been shown to save up to 96% on storage costs compared to its predecessors, offering dramatic benefits over open-source solutions like ClickHouse.