<story><title>Update on InfluxDB Clustering, High Availability and Monetization</title><url>https://influxdata.com/blog/update-on-influxdb-clustering-high-availability-and-monetization/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>23david</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve advocated for and implemented several InfluxDB installations in production over the last year+, and one of the considerations was always that non-alpha (prod-ready) clustering was always promised in the &amp;#x27;next version&amp;#x27; that was just around the corner.&lt;p&gt;Several months ago it seemed clear that the team was overly optimistic, and it&amp;#x27;s just disappointing to see that now the clustering will be available only in a paid (minimum $400!) option or on their hosted service.&lt;p&gt;I understand the business considerations here, but it feels like a bait n&amp;#x27; switch for all the people who evaluated&amp;#x2F;used InfluxDB in single-node operation as a temporary measure while giving the team ample time to work out the clustering kinks.&lt;p&gt;Lesson learned I guess... but dang what an expensive lesson.</text></comment>
<story><title>Update on InfluxDB Clustering, High Availability and Monetization</title><url>https://influxdata.com/blog/update-on-influxdb-clustering-high-availability-and-monetization/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrv</author><text>This makes me think: an open-source project can be better off if it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; controlled by any one company. While in Prometheus (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;prometheus.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;prometheus.io&lt;/a&gt;), we might still take a while before we have a clustered remote long-term storage, we&amp;#x27;d never &lt;i&gt;prevent&lt;/i&gt; it because the project is independent of any company and we&amp;#x27;d want the open-source project to be as good as it can be.&lt;p&gt;Also, there were some tentative thoughts about using InfluxDB as the main long-term storage backend for Prometheus, but that has become pretty much uninteresting now that clustering support (needed for LTS and durability) is basically cancelled for the open-source version.&lt;p&gt;Still, I guess I can understand that when you&amp;#x27;re a company, you need to focus on making money.</text></comment>