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title: InfluxDB 3 Core documentation
description: InfluxDB 3 Core is an open source time series database designed and optimized for real-time and recent data. Learn how to use and leverage InfluxDB 3 in use cases such as edge data collection, IoT data, and events.
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# InfluxDB 3 Core documentation

InfluxDB 3 Core is a database built to collect, process, transform, and store event and time series data, and is ideal for use cases that require real-time ingest and fast query response times to build user interfaces, monitoring, and automation solutions.

Common use cases include:

-   Monitoring sensor data
-   Server monitoring
-   Application performance monitoring
-   Network monitoring
-   Financial market and trading analytics
-   Behavioral analytics

InfluxDB is optimized for scenarios where near real-time data monitoring is essential and queries need to return quickly to support user experiences such as dashboards and interactive user interfaces.

InfluxDB 3 Core is the InfluxDB 3 open source release.

Core’s feature highlights include:

-   Diskless architecture with object storage support (or local disk with no dependencies)
-   Fast query response times (under 10ms for last-value queries, or 30ms for distinct metadata)
-   Embedded Python VM for plugins and triggers
-   Parquet file persistence
-   Compatibility with InfluxDB 1.x and 2.x write APIs

[Get started with InfluxDB 3 Core](/influxdb3/core/get-started/)

The Enterprise version adds the following features to Core:

-   Historical query capability and single series indexing
-   High availability
-   Read replicas
-   Enhanced security (coming soon)
-   Row-level delete support (coming soon)
-   Integrated admin UI (coming soon)

For more information, see how to [get started with InfluxDB 3 Enterprise](/influxdb3/enterprise/get-started/).