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First time I heard about Prometheus (by Soundcloud). I wonder how it compares to InfluxDB as a time-series DB (ignoring the monitoring things).
by kbody 12y ago
First time I heard about Prometheus (by Soundcloud). I wonder how it compares to InfluxDB as a time-series DB (ignoring the monitoring things).
- freeman478 12y agoSee the previous HN Post about it : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8995696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8995696 and more precisely related to your question : http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/#prometheus-vs.-influxdb http://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison/#prometheu...
- detaro 12y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8995696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8995696 Previous discussion here, with both Prometheus and InfluxDB developers chiming in. Short version from memory: Prometheus is more efficient for datasets were series have metadata, not so much individual points, since InfluxDB stores metadata per point, but InfluxDB will optimize this case in the next version.
- jrv 12y agoSee also the official announcement blog post by SoundCloud: https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/prometheus-monitoring-at-soundcloud https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/prometheus-monitoring...