Company
Date Published
Author
Anais Dotis-Georgiou
Word count
1226
Language
English
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None

Summary

InfluxDB Cloud offers various benefits over the OSS account, including unified APIs, edge data replication, immense data processing capabilities, a managed serverless and elastic service, multi-tenanted horizontally scalable time series storage, and a unified developer experience. However, users must adapt to changing their approach when migrating from OSS to Cloud, particularly when executing heavy queries, as vertical scaling is not available in InfluxDB Cloud. To avoid query timeouts, users can utilize the Task system to offload query workloads, breaking down complex tasks into smaller ones that write intermediate values to new buckets, enabling faster execution and data redundancy across different buckets.