In this presentation, Paul Dix provides an update on InfluxDB and Flux.

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@pauldix
Our journey to
InfluxDB 2.0 GA

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Talk Roadmap
• History & Review
• Where 2.0 is now
• Our journey to a cloud first delivery model
• What’s left and when we get to 2.0 OSS GA
• What’s after 2.0?

3. Why InfluxDB 2.0?

4. The TICK stack

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InfluxQL

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TICKscript

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Three different APIs…

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InfluxQL feature requests

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20. Two languages, one for
query, one for processing

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InfluxDB 2.0 is about
unifying the stack and
expanding functionality

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Work Sequencing
1. Make it work
2. Make it flexible/powerful
3. Make it fast
4. Make it easy

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Data from many sources
• Postgres
• MySQL
• Snowflake
• BigQuery
• JSON & CSV files on S3
• Other HTTP sources

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Data or messages out
• InfluxDB
• HTTP
• Postgres
• MySQL
• Snowflake
• PagerDuty
• Slack
• Discord

26. InfluxDB 2.0 isn’t a
database, it’s a platform
for working with time
series data.

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Where we are now
• InfluxDB v2 OSS Beta 12
• Alpha 1 – January 23, 2019
• Beta 1 – January 8, 2020
• InfluxDB Cloud 2.0
• AWS – production ready September 10, 2019
• GCP – production ready February 4, 2020
• Azure – beta June 3, 2020, production July
• Cloud in GA, but OSS is alpha/beta?

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Cloud first delivery model
• Upgrade in place with no-downtime
• Additional backup systems not possible in OSS
• Multiple API versions at the same time
• Multiple Flux versions
• Migrate customer data
• Operational visibility

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Deliver in multiple regions, multiple clouds

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GCPAWS Azure
GCP
AWS GCP Azure
CIMaster
Code
Config
Tools
AWS
AWS GCP
Azure
Azure
Development
Acceptance
Internal Production
External Production
Argo

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37. Shipping OSS is less
flexible

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Flux Performance Work!
• Core engine work
• join
• drop
• keep
• Push down processing
• group |> count()
• sum, first, last
• window |> count()
• sum, first, last

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Next steps to InfluxDB 2.0 OSS GA
• InfluxQL support
• Available in Cloud 2.0 next month
• 1.x storage engine
• Write API
• Drop-in upgrade
• Flux performance (always)
• 2.0 GA release in Early Fall 2020

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What’s after 2.0 GA?
• More Flux connectors
• Flux Triggers
• Streaming Flux
• Flux user packages
• More language support for Tasks?
• Flux usability enhancements

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What about the core DB?
• Infinite Cardinality
• Tiered Data Storage
• Core Query Performance
• Real-time Subscriptions
• Operator Defined Replication Topologies

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paul@influxdata.com
@pauldix
Thank you!