# influxdb

> Time-series database for real-time analytics and monitoring

InfluxDB is an open-source time-series database engineered for high-throughput data ingestion, real-time analytics, and monitoring. Powered by Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet, it supports SQL, InfluxQL, and Flight SQL querying against local disk or cloud object storage. It runs as a standalone service via Docker containers, system packages, or prebuilt binaries.

- Source: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb
- Homepage: https://influxdata.com
- License: Apache-2.0
- Built with: Rust 96.4%, Answer Set Programming 2.3%, Python 1.0%, Other 0.3%
- Stars: 31790
- Forks: 3794
- Contributors: 536
- Last commit: 2026-10-22
- Latest release: v3.12.1 (2026-10-15)
- Purpose: Developer tools, Data & analytics, Infra & DevOps, Databases & backends
- Type: Docker / self-host, CLI
- For: Personal, Enterprise

## Worth score: 87/100

How much DigGitHub recommends it, from activity, adoption, docs, license and security signals.

- Popularity: 23/25
- Momentum: 10/20
- Maintenance: 25/25
- Community: 14/15
- Readiness: 15/15

## Downloads

Latest release: [v3.12.1 | 10-14-26](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/releases/tag/v3.12.1). Files from the project's GitHub release, not checked by DigGitHub.

Source code only: this release has no files to download.

## Alternatives

- [TDengine](https://diggithub.com/taosdata/TDengine.md): Time-series database for industrial IoT
- [Redis](https://diggithub.com/redis/redis.md): In-memory data store, cache and message broker
- [QuestDB](https://diggithub.com/questdb/questdb.md): High-performance time-series database
- [TimescaleDB](https://diggithub.com/timescale/timescaledb.md): Time-series database on PostgreSQL
- [etcd](https://diggithub.com/etcd-io/etcd.md): Reliable distributed key-value store
- [DuckDB](https://diggithub.com/duckdb/duckdb.md): In-process analytical SQL database
- [ClickHouse](https://diggithub.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse.md): Real-time analytics database
- [postgrest](https://diggithub.com/PostgREST/postgrest.md): Automatic REST API for PostgreSQL databases

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Source page: https://diggithub.com/influxdata/influxdb
Updated: 2026-10-29