InfluxDB 3 Core & Enterprise bring high-speed data tools

InfluxData has announced the general availability of InfluxDB 3 Core, its latest open-source time series database, and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, which provides additional features for production use.

InfluxDB 3 Core is now available under the MIT/Apache 2 open source licence and is positioned as a high-speed, recent-data engine built to handle real-time, high-resolution, and high-velocity workloads. Use cases include IoT, edge computing, observability, and AI/ML systems.

InfluxDB 3 Enterprise builds upon the Core offering with production capabilities including high availability, multi-region durability, enhanced security, and tools supporting seamless migration from Core. This aims to simplify the process for developers who need to scale and operationalise real-time systems.

Both InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise include a built-in Python Processing Engine that enables developers to run custom Python code directly inside the database. This supports transformation, enrichment, monitoring, and alerting on time series data as it streams in, turning the database from passive storage into an active intelligence layer.

Paul Dix, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at InfluxData, said, "Time series data never stops, and managing it at scale has always come with trade-offs—performance, complexity, or cost. We rebuilt InfluxDB 3 from the ground up to remove those trade-offs. Core is open source, fast, and deploys in seconds, while Enterprise easily scales for production. Whether you're running at the edge, in the cloud, or somewhere in between, InfluxDB 3 makes working with time series data faster, easier, and far more efficient than ever."

Time series data is generated continuously by sources such as IoT devices, industrial sensors, financial systems, and cloud infrastructure. The scale and velocity of this data can overwhelm existing databases and require complex architecture, increasing costs and reducing performance.

InfluxData's products aim to address these challenges by providing a modern architecture designed for high throughput and precision at scale across real-time data streams. InfluxDB 3 Core offers an open source tool for developers seeking flexibility without vendor lock-in, while Enterprise is targeted at organisations requiring production-level durability, replication, availability, and security.

Both offerings run in a lightweight, single-node mode for rapid deployment. The underlying engine has been developed using Rust and incorporates Apache Arrow, DataFusion, Parquet, and Flight technologies. This reportedly delivers performance improvements and additional architectural options compared with previous versions of InfluxDB.

The InfluxDB 3 portfolio now includes Core and Enterprise, complemented by InfluxDB 3 options for distributed workloads in dedicated cloud and Kubernetes environments. A fully managed, multi-tenant pay-as-you-go option is also available for organisations seeking operational simplicity.

Key capabilities available in InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise include the ability to ingest millions of writes per second, query data in real-time with sub-10ms lookups, and manage datasets with unlimited cardinality. The Python Processing Engine allows for real-time transformation, enrichment, anomaly detection, and alerting directly within the database, eliminating the need for external extract, transform, load (ETL) pipelines.

Poul H. Sørensen, Senior Systems Consultant at Orange Business, said, "InfluxDB has been essential to our operations and customers' success over the past seven years. The new InfluxDB 3 Enterprise aligns with our strategic goals, providing distributed monitoring with flexible storage solutions. It also gives us a future-proof foundation to accelerate ML/AI adoption and integration."