InfluxDB 3 Core

InfluxDB 3 Core is a database built to collect, process, transform, and store event and time series data. It is ideal for use cases that require real-time ingest and fast query response times to build user interfaces, monitoring, and automation solutions.

Common use cases include:

• Monitoring sensor data
• Server monitoring
• Application performance monitoring
• Network monitoring
• Financial market and trading analytics
• Behavioral analytics

InfluxDB is optimized for scenarios where near real-time data monitoring is essential and queries need to return quickly to support user experiences such as dashboards and interactive user interfaces.

InfluxDB 3 Core’s feature highlights include:

• Diskless architecture with object storage support (or local disk with no dependencies)
• Fast query response times (under 10ms for last-value queries, or 30ms for distinct metadata)
• Embedded Python VM for plugins and triggers
• Parquet file persistence
• Compatibility with InfluxDB 1.x and 2.x write APIs
• Compatibility with InfluxDB 1.x query API (InfluxQL)
• SQL query engine with support for FlightSQL and HTTP query API

Storage format: Apache Parquet on object storage (S3, Azure, GCP) or local disk
Query languages: SQL, InfluxQL, Flight SQL
Write format: Line protocol
API: HTTP on port 8181
Built with: Rust, Apache Arrow, DataFusion
Compatible with: InfluxDB 1.x and 2.x write APIs, InfluxDB 1.x query API (InfluxQL)

Other InfluxDB Versions

This repository contains multiple InfluxDB versions on separate branches:

| Version | Branch | Query Languages | Documentation | |---------|--------|-----------------|---------------| | v3 Core (this branch) | main | SQL, InfluxQL | docs.influxdata.com/influxdb3/core/ | | v2.x | main-2.x | Flux, InfluxQL | docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2/ | | v1.x | master-1.x | InfluxQL, Flux | docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1/ |

Project Status

InfluxDB 3 Core has been generally available since April 2025. See v3.* tags and release notes for the latest version.

Join the InfluxDB3 Discord or the public channels below to share your feedback, feature requests, and bug reports.

Installation

Docker images, Debian packages, RPM packages, and tarballs are available on the InfluxData downloads page.

• For InfluxDB 3 Core, see the getting started guide.
• For InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, see the getting started guide.
• For v2.x, see the main-2.x branch.
• For v1.x, see the master-1.x branch.

If you are interested in building from source, see the building from source guide for contributors.

Support

For community support and feedback channels, see Bug reports and feedback.

License

The open source software we build is licensed under the permissive MIT or Apache 2 licenses at the user’s choosing. We’ve long held the view that our open source code should be truly open and our commercial code should be separate and closed.

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