[pauldix]

InfluxDB creator here. I'd say it's on par and in some cases a bit better. They can do some optimizations that we're unable to do. We have to worry about writing historical data rather than just append only workloads. We also have to support more data types than float64.

The design of the new Prometheus engine and InfluxDB's Time Structured Merge Tree engine are very similar. They're both heavily inspired by LSM Trees.

Our goal is to add more support for Prometheus standards like the metrics format and even PromQL over time. We recently added remote read/write support, which will be in the 1.4 release next week. https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb-now-supports-promet...

I'd like to see Influx become something that is complementary to Prometheus or at least solidly in the Prometheus ecosystem, like players like Weaveworks, etc.