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InfluxDB always seemed like it was run by children who are good at raising VC money.
by osigurdson 2y ago
InfluxDB always seemed like it was run by children who are good at raising VC money.
- candiddevmike 2y agoEventually one of their rewrites will find product market fit.
- dijit 2y agoAgreed, after trying to buy a commercial license from them I was left… wanting to avoid the company entirely.
- steveBK123 2y agoBeing familiar with both KDB and somewhat so with InfluxDB .. it strikes me as a challenging space. I suspect there just isn't much money in it. Oddly InfluxDB has raised amounts of VC money approaching KDB parent companies current market cap. I know VC raised and market cap are not directly comparable, but what is the hoped-for enterprise value at exit of NewCo if the IncumbentCo is worth Z? My take is that orgs with real revenue-generating time series data challenges, budget and dev staff to cook up solutions have long ago bought KDB licenses or rolled their own in-house column store. Orgs using time series DBs for telemetry/observability/etc type of "back office" problems (where you are willing to downsample/conflate/offload history) either don't want to pay a dime, or want a fully formed SaaS solution with pretty GUI, alerting, etc like a DataDog they will like $10M/year to. Not a lot of middle ground oddly.