While Arrow provides an in-memory columnar format, Data Fusion, Flight SQL, and Parquet provide a query engine with SQL processing capabilities, a protocol for SQL interactions with databases, and an open columnar oriented data storage format that is widely used by data platforms, respectively, Menninger explained.
“InfluxDB is designed to support the most demanding real-time, time series workloads requiring high throughput and low latency. They claim to be able to ingest millions of data values per second,” he said.
Some of the database’s use cases include security event monitoring and network monitoring to determine if systems are operating properly and at peak efficiency.
