Understanding InfluxDB IOx and the Commitment to Open Source
If you’ve been following InfluxDB, you’ve probably heard of InfluxDB IOx, the next evolution of the storage engine powering InfluxDB Cloud. However, I wanted to learn more about how the open source components of the new engine help achieve the requirements for the new InfluxDB engine and why they were chosen. This post covers that precise topic. We’ll also learn why InfluxDB chose to contribute to these open source projects and what our commitment to open source looks like today.