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by Rebelgecko 2052 days ago
TimescaleDB behaves more like a regular relational database, while Influx is fairly different and has some interesting nuances that you'll need to understand if you want to have a table with a bunch of columns. For example having a lot of metadata columns has different performance implications than having a high cardinality of actual measurements (although it's been long enough since I've used Influx I don't remember what those differences actually are)

If you're used to writing SQL, TimescaleDB is much easier to write queries with although if you get over the learning curve both of the query languages in Influx seem very powerful

One notable advantage of Influx is its integrations with other tools for ingest and visualization, and it seems like 2.0 is doubling down on that