Documentation

InfluxDB Enterprise features

InfluxDB Enterprise has additional capabilities that enhance availability, scalability, and security, and provide eventual consistency.

Clustering

InfluxDB Enterprise runs on a network of independent servers, a cluster, to provide fault tolerance, availability, and horizontal scalability of the database.

While many InfluxDB Enterprise features are available when run with a single meta node and a single data node, this configuration does not take advantage of the clustering capablity or ensure high availablity.

Nodes can be added to an existing cluster to improve database performance for querying and writing data. Certain configurations (e.g., 3 meta and 2 data node) provide high-availability assurances while making certain tradeoffs in query peformance when compared to a single node.

Further increasing the number of nodes can improve performance in both respects. For example, a cluster with 4 data nodes and a replication factor of 2 can support a higher volume of write traffic than a single node could. It can also support a higher query workload, as the data is replicated in two locations. Performance of the queries may be on par with a single node in cases where the query can be answered directly by the node which receives the query.

For more information on clustering, see Clustering in InfluxDB Enterprise.

Security

Enterprise authorization uses an expanded set of 16 user permissions and roles. (InfluxDB OSS only has READ and WRITE permissions.) Administrators can give users permission to read and write to databases, create and remove databases, rebalance a cluster, and manage particular resources.

Organizations can automate managing permissions with the InfluxDB Enterprise Meta API.

Fine-grained authorization for particular data is also available.

InfluxDB Enterprise can also use LDAP for managing authentication.

For FIPS compliance, InfluxDB Enterprise password hashing alogrithms are configurable.

Kapacitor OSS can also delegate its LDAP and security setup to InfluxDB Enterprise. For details, see “Set up InfluxDB Enterprise authorizations”.

Eventual consistency

Hinted handoff

Hinted handoff (HH) is how InfluxDB Enterprise deals with data node outages while writes are happening. HH is essentially a durable disk based queue.

For more information, see “Hinted handoff”.

Anti-entropy

Anti-entropy is an optional service to eliminate edge cases related to cluster consistency.

For more information, see “Use Anti-Entropy service in InfluxDB Enterprise”.



Was this page helpful?

Thank you for your feedback!


Introducing InfluxDB Clustered

A highly available InfluxDB 3.0 cluster on your own infrastructure.

InfluxDB Clustered is a highly available InfluxDB 3.0 cluster built for high write and query workloads on your own infrastructure.

InfluxDB Clustered is currently in limited availability and is only available to a limited group of InfluxData customers. If interested in being part of the limited access group, please contact the InfluxData Sales team.

Learn more
Contact InfluxData Sales

The future of Flux

Flux is going into maintenance mode. You can continue using it as you currently are without any changes to your code.

Flux is going into maintenance mode and will not be supported in InfluxDB 3.0. This was a decision based on the broad demand for SQL and the continued growth and adoption of InfluxQL. We are continuing to support Flux for users in 1.x and 2.x so you can continue using it with no changes to your code. If you are interested in transitioning to InfluxDB 3.0 and want to future-proof your code, we suggest using InfluxQL.

For information about the future of Flux, see the following:

State of the InfluxDB Cloud Serverless documentation

InfluxDB Cloud Serverless documentation is a work in progress.

The new documentation for InfluxDB Cloud Serverless is a work in progress. We are adding new information and content almost daily. Thank you for your patience!

If there is specific information you’re looking for, please submit a documentation issue.