As per the article the issue influx tries to solve does so by trying to jam non-ts data into a ts database. You gain much more by simplifying things with say a

As per the article the issue influx tries to solve does so by trying to jam non-ts data into a ts database. You gain much more by simplifying things with say a constant increment mirror mmap file with another simple KV that maps offsets for tags and such. I would bet this would be immensely faster except for contrived update-tag-on-every-entry.