Though I'm a Prometheus author, I need to defend InfluxDB here :) Since 0.9.0, they support tags (vs. fields), which store indexed dimensions similarly to how P

Though I'm a Prometheus author, I need to defend InfluxDB here :) Since 0.9.0, they support tags (vs. fields), which store indexed dimensions similarly to how Prometheus does it. So this argument doesn't count anymore. Still, there are many other differences in scope and functionality between the two systems.