Why DNSFilter replaced InfluxDB with TimescaleDB for performance, ease of use

“I feel confident we can scale to 3B queries a day or more without much change — and look forward to continuing to grow with TimescaleDB.” — Mike Schroll, CTO @DNSFilter

After using early iterations of InfluxDB and more recently InfluxDB 1.3, DNSFilter ran into certain issues and we began to evaluate TimescaleDB as an alternative. Read why DNSFilter replaced InfluxDB with TimescaleDB.

Update! This post made it to Hacker News. Read the discussion.

A 5-day snapshot of Average CPU Load with InfluxDB 1.3 compared to TimescaleDB 0.8.

And if you’d like to learn more about TimescaleDB, please check out their GitHub (stars always appreciated), and please get in touch.