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Influx alternatives for sub 100G data?

2 points by ramanathanrv ↗ HN
Influx HA cluster pricing is very expensive for our data size, which is sub 100G data. For a 3 node cluster, influx is charging $18,000 per annum.

https://influxdata.com/pricing/#product_subscriptions

We really like influx and heavily use the dimensioning feature in the TSD. Are there any influx like alternatives that are cheaper? I am willing to allocate $3,000 - $5,000 dollars (per annum) for this.

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omn1
First question: Do you really need a cluster? We were running InfluxDB with a lot more data and ran on a single node. A single machine is surprisingly scalable.

If you are positive that you need a cluster, here are my suggestions: * Recently Elasticsearch has become a lot better at time series data, so it might be worth a try. * My second bet would be Cassandra. Look at these slides for more info: http://de.slideshare.net/patrickmcfadin/time-series-with-apa... Not sure if this is supported by Grafana, though. * Another one would be Prometheus which also works with Grafana. Personally I'm not a big fan of its query language. Also clustering support is pretty limited there (and mostly needs to be handled by the client).

ramanathanrv
High availability is the main requirement. Since we are running our hosts in AWS, we are sure that the host(s) running influx would go down certainly few times a year.

Will look more into Cassandra. Since it scales really well, it could well be worth investing time and money.