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A new Rust-based database engine, InfluxDB IOx, brings an in-memory columnar store, unlimited cardinality, and SQL language support to the open source time series database, raising the bar for ...

Database sizes have grown exponentially, with more than half of all databases in use globally projected to exceed 10TB by 2010, according to The Data Warehouse Institute. But as the size of data ...