InfluxDB IOx Project Update - 2021-02-10

February, 2021 project update for InfluxDB IOx, a new in-memory columnar database written in Rust, backed by Apache Arrow, using object storage for persistence. The replication document on slide 2 is here.

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1. Paul Dix InfluxData – CTO & co-founder paul@influxdata.com @pauldix InfluxDB IOx - a new columnar time series database (update)
2. Progress • New Team Members! • Read Buffer progress • Mutable Buffer & Read Buffer connections • Arrow Flight API • Replication, multiple IOx servers doc
3. API Decisions • Management API will be gRPC – CLI for common tasks • Write – InfluxDB 2.0 Line Protocol – JSON objects (events!) – Protobuf? • Query – HTTP (csv, json, display) – Arrow Flight – Postgres?
4. What’s Next? • Management API • Parquet Persistence to Object Store • Recovery from Object Store • Replication • Subscriptions • Official Builds & Documentation (now late March)