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## InfluxDB Regrets
My biggest regret was using InfluxDB. It's a stupid database that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I ran into timezone issues with `group by time()`. It assumes the column data type is an integer if your sensor happens to send it a whole number at first and it won't let you change it. Their docs are a confusing mess. They dropped the SQL-like InfluxQL syntax for querying with a pipeline-like syntax called Flux in version 2.0. Debian's repos seem to be staying with version 1.x though. You can only delete data by time ranges, not values. It also logs every single thing to `/var/log/syslog` and there's no easy way to disable it (completely). They shut down InfluxDB cloud in Belgium and [didn't warn customers](https://community.influxdata.com/t/getting-weird-results-from-gcp-europe-west1/30615/7) before deleting all their data.
My biggest regret was using InfluxDB. It's a stupid database that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I ran into timezone issues with `group by time()`. It assumes the column data type is an integer if your sensor happens to send it a whole number at first and it won't let you change it. Their docs are a confusing mess. They dropped the SQL-like InfluxQL syntax for querying with a pipeline-like syntax called Flux in version 2.0. Debian's repos seem to be staying with version 1.x though. You can only delete data by time ranges, not values. It also logs every single thing to `/var/log/syslog` and there's no easy way to disable it (completely). They shut down InfluxDB cloud in Belgium and [didn't warn customers](https://community.influxdata.com/t/getting-weird-results-from-gcp-europe-west1/30615/7) before deleting all their data. They changed schemas again in version 3.x and made useful features closed-source. Read the comments [here](https://news.t0.vc/TUTF/c#doctoboggan1750217574).
Just stick to SQLite or Postgres.