Features and workflows with Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3

This article provides a technical deep dive into Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3, a redesigned time series database built with modern open-source technologies.

• Built with Rust, Apache Arrow, Parquet, and Arrow Flight SQL for performance
• Native SQL support replaces InfluxDB 2's Flux domain-specific language
• Supports unlimited cardinality without performance tradeoffs on indexed tags
• Uses Amazon S3 as core storage layer with 99.999999999% durability
• Embedded Python processing engine enables real-time data transformations
• Core edition: single-node, optimized for recent data (3-5 days)
• Enterprise edition: multi-node clusters up to 15 nodes with compactor
• Backwards-compatible write endpoints for InfluxDB v1 and v2
• InfluxDB 3 Explorer provides graphical interface for management and queries
• CloudWatch and metrics collection enable comprehensive deployment monitoring

InfluxDB 3 offers improved performance, cost efficiency, and flexibility for time series workloads including monitoring, IoT, and analytics use cases.