Talk:InfluxDB

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Since the notability banner was added various references have been added including:

• Citations for 24 million dollars in funding in two separate rounds from a reliable technical reporting website (tech crunch)
• Affiliation with Y-Combinator, a very well known start up incubator.

I feel this is enough to make this notable.

(Talpedia (talk) 03:10, 14 October 2016 (UTC))Reply

I have to say that I disagree. A mention in tech crunch and significant funding rounds and an affiliation with Y-Combinator may be seen as great company achievements, but please take a read of WP:GNG. -- HighKing⁺⁺ 17:27, 14 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

Not sure what the specific WP:GNG you're disagreeing with, but I see InfluxDB as very similar to Mongo, except with significantly more open source contributor activity (it's significnatly less centralized in its development). They are one of the most popular open source Go projects, albeit not as marketing-savvy as Mongo. What kind of coverage do you expect of a time-series database to make it "noteworthy"? There simply aren't many of them out there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.104.129.58 (talk) 18:15, 22 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Yep, I spent quite a lot of time reading policy documents before making this change :). Well those are the things that are easy to reference, with sources that wikipedians like.

Additional reasons for notability are:

• Minor technical point: two mentions in techcruch separated by a number of months.
• Minor technical point This is open source software not a company, I suspect some of the company references were an attempt to meet notability standards
• Graphite is massively broadly used within lots of companies (e.g. etsy). You get meet up groups of graphite use. This is one of the only real competitors in this space.
• It's an open source project with a large and mature codebase and multiple contributors. The standards for open source projects should probably be different from proprietary software companies. Notice it is the software rather than the company that has an entry.
• It's open source and broadly used (9000 stars and 1200 forks on github)

How do people feel about citations pointing at github? The nature of the tech "discourse community" is that

• There's a bit of an absence of "reliable sources", instead of peer review you get blog posts, hacker news, stack overflow questions and github repositories which serve a similar role
• Easy access to information, blogs, and active informal communication methods decrease the role of the press in the development space.

Anyway, that's a lot of words. The fact that "notability = references to sources" aside

• Do people feel that this is intrinsically not notable, or would better sources help?
• I could go digging in obscure software engineering journals and probably find something, I'm not so sure of being able to get something from the press.
• How do people feel about references to github, stackoverflow and blogs for notability?

(Talpedia (talk) 23:02, 14 October 2016 (UTC))Reply

I kind of forgot about the role of books and conferences. Influxdb seems to be old enough to show up in many books, though there is no book purely on influxdb.

• https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/devops-automation-cookbook/9781784392826/ch08.html, this book has a section on influxdb.
• Here are more books that mention or recommend influxdb here: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=influxdb#q=influxdb&tbm=bks&start=0
• There are several talks on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=influxdb), though * I'm not sure which of them can be considered notable conferences, this talk seems to mention influxdb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OB0w4b_3l0 at the popular, community-run europython
• There is also a talk on grafana and influxdb at the pydata conference in london. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4CNBqGoYRA

I don't have a good feeling for where the line of notability stands for "special interest topics", I think the talk paged for this failed proposal might relevant Wikipedia talk: Software notability

(Talpedia (talk) 23:36, 14 October 2016 (UTC))Reply

Hi, thank you for spending the time to find references. The relevant policies are WP:CORPDEPTH and WP:RS. You asked about using GitHub stars as an indicator of notability but WP:RS disallows user-generated content. There is also a discussion/RfC at Talk:Graph database asking the same question so you might want to comment there as well. Also WP:RS disallows blogs. And YouTube.

But the books are great references and should be put into the article as these are gold standards (mostly) in establishing notability. -- HighKing⁺⁺ 12:45, 23 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

The article reads:

It defines a line protocol backwards compatible with Graphite and takes the form: measurement(,tag_key=tag_val)* field_key=field_val(,field_key_n=field_value_n)* (nanoseconds-timestamp)?

Is it really backwards compatible with Graphite, though? According to [1], the second field is a numerical metric value. However, according to the article, InfluxDB uses, at minimum, a key-value pair. Can we drop the incorrect Graphite reference? Or, if that's indeed correct, provide a proof-reference? Hot basket (talk) 11:54, 18 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Given the restriction of of the OSS "core" component to supporting queries of the last 72 hours, as well as 5 database limit-does influxDb count as open source any more?

https://www.reddit.com/r/influxdb/comments/1i0fmkf/influxdb_3_open_source_now_in_public_alpha_under/

Certainly if I was using that component in production I'd be looking hard at the source -now under MIT and ASF licenses- and deciding that forking it to remove the 72h limit was necessary

SteveLoughran (talk) 10:59, 18 January 2025 (UTC)Reply

An impartial editor has reviewed the proposed edit(s) and asked the editor with a conflict of interest to go ahead and make the suggested changes.

Hello editors, I have a conflict of interest as I work at InfluxData. I would like to request replacing the InfluxDB logo in the infobox, as the logo currently in the infobox (as of Sept. 9, 2025) is out of date. The company updated its branding and product logos in 2022. The new/correct logo has been uploaded under the name [File:Updated InfluxDB Logo.svg].

Can an editor review this and make the change it if appropriate? Thank you!

AshleyAtInfluxData (talk) 17:35, 9 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Already done PK650 (talk) 01:43, 12 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Hello editors, I have a conflict of interest since I work for InfluxData. I would like to request adding Apache 2.0 to the list of licenses in the infobox. InfluxDB 3 Core released earlier this year is permissively licensed under MIT and Apache 2.0. ^[1] Can an editor review this and make the change if appropriate? Thank you!

AshleyAtInfluxData (talk) 19:02, 9 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Go ahead: I have reviewed these proposed changes and suggest that you go ahead and make the proposed changes to the page. Likeanechointheforest (talk) 19:15, 10 October 2025 (UTC)Reply