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title: Other InfluxDB syntaxes
description: InfluxDB uses a handful of languages and syntaxes to perform tasks such as writing, querying, and processing data.
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb3/cloud-dedicated/reference/syntax/
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date: '2025-01-13T07:21:11-07:00'
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InfluxDB Cloud Dedicated uses a specific languages and syntaxes to perform tasks
such as writing, querying, processing, and deleting data.
The following articles provide information about the different syntaxes used
with InfluxDB and the contexts in which they’re used:

### [Line protocol reference](/influxdb3/cloud-dedicated/reference/syntax/line-protocol/)

InfluxDB uses line protocol to write data points. It is a text-based format that provides the measurement, tag set, field set, and timestamp of a data point.