Company
Date Published
Author
Anais Dotis-Georgiou
Word count
1001
Language
English
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None

Summary

The Go InfluxDB v3 Client Library is a software package that allows developers to efficiently query and write time series data from/to InfluxDB 3.0, simplifying the integration of InfluxDB into Go applications. InfluxDB 3.0 offers significant performance improvements over previous versions, including 45x better write throughput and 4.5x better storage compression. The library provides a set of tools and functions for interacting with InfluxDB using the Go programming language, implementing writes via the /write API endpoint and utilizing Apache Arrow Flight Client Libraries and the Arrow Format and Flight gRPC protocol for efficient serialization and deserialization. To use the library, developers need to initialize the client by providing credentials and import the required packages into their main.go file. The library allows users to write data to InfluxDB synchronously or asynchronously using Point objects and supports upserts of fields but not tags. It also enables querying of InfluxDB 3.0 using SQL and InfluxQL, a SQL-like query language for time series data.