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title: InfluxDB Version 1.2 Documentation

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InfluxDB is a [time series database](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_series_database) built from the ground up to handle high write and query loads.
It is the second piece of the
[TICK stack](https://influxdata.com/time-series-platform/).
InfluxDB is meant to be used as a backing store for any use case involving large amounts of timestamped data, including DevOps monitoring, application metrics, IoT sensor data, and real-time analytics.

## Key Features

Here are some of the features that InfluxDB currently supports that make it a great choice for working with time series data.

* Custom high performance datastore written specifically for time series data.<commit_msg>Update index.md<commit_after>---
title: InfluxDB Version 1.2 Documentation

menu:
  influxdb:
    name: v1.2
    identifier: influxdb_1_2
    weight: 3
---

InfluxDB is a [time series database](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_series_database) built from the ground up to handle high write and query loads.
It is the second piece of the
[TICK stack](https://influxdata.com/time-series-platform/).
InfluxDB is meant to be used as a backing store for any use case involving large amounts of timestamped data, including DevOps monitoring, application metrics, IoT sensor data, and real-time analytics.

## Key Features

Here are some of the features that InfluxDB currently supports that make it a great choice for working with time series data.

* Custom high performance datastore written specifically for time series data.
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