Freeboard vs InfluxDB

Freeboard

A damn-sexy, open source real-time dashboard builder for IOT and other web mashups. A free open-source alternative to Geckoboard. (by Freeboard)

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freeboard.io

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InfluxDB

Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics (by influxdata)

Database InfluxDB Monitoring time-series Metrics Go React Rust

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influxdata.com

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InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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Freeboard		InfluxDB
	Project
4	Mentions	28
6,417	Stars	27,848
0.1%	Growth	0.9%
0.0	Activity	9.9
8 months ago	Latest Commit	about 16 hours ago
JavaScript	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Freeboard

Posts with mentions or reviews of Freeboard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-31.

Platform to monetize user interface
1 project | /r/IOT | 23 Aug 2022

I also found freeboard.io last night.
How to build an IoT dashboard
4 projects | dev.to | 31 Dec 2021

Freeboard.io – Open-source. Very popular, but doesn’t currently support MQTT out of the box.
How do I run a index.html file using Django as a webserver. I'm trying to run Freeboard with Django.
1 project | /r/django | 22 Jul 2021

I'm trying to create a simple dashboard using Freeboard and Django. I'm having trouble understanding how I can connect these two. I need to make changes to the HTML from Django.
Looking for a software to use phone as output (not as second monitor)
1 project | /r/software | 6 Jun 2021

InfluxDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of InfluxDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

Quant Research of the Week (5th Edition)
6 projects | /r/quant | 7 Dec 2023

Scalable Realtime Datastore: The piece examines a scalable datastore specifically created for metrics events and real-time analytics. (2013-09-26, shares: 26787.0)
InfluxDB is an open source time series database written in Rust
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Oct 2023
InfluxDB CTO: Why We Moved from Go to Rust
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Oct 2023

How does one upgrade from v2 beta to the latest v2? The docs for doing that seem to no longer exist https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/24393
InfluxDB 3 is out, OSS commits have been tried up - is this the end?
2 projects | /r/influxdb | 10 May 2023
InfluxDB dashboard column order
1 project | /r/influxdb | 19 Dec 2022

Here is the GitHub issue for sorting/specifying column order: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/15957
reduct-storage alternatives - minio and InfluxDB
3 projects | 4 Oct 2022
A practical approach to structuring Golang applications
10 projects | dev.to | 3 Oct 2022
What do you use InfluxDB for in your APIs?
2 projects | /r/golang | 16 Sep 2022

And InfluxDB Github commit history histogram is telling its story https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/graphs/contributors
What is the coolest Go open source projects you have seen?
84 projects | /r/golang | 15 Sep 2022

InfluxDB
Open Source Databases in Go
52 projects | /r/golang | 8 Jun 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Freeboard and InfluxDB you can also consider the following projects:

Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

VictoriaMetrics - VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database

Thingsboard - Open-source IoT Platform - Device management, data collection, processing and visualization.

TDengine - TDengine is an open source, high-performance, cloud native time-series database optimized for Internet of Things (IoT), Connected Cars, Industrial IoT and DevOps.

Heimdall - An Application dashboard and launcher

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

Thingspeak - ThingSpeak is an open source “Internet of Things” application and API to store and retrieve data from things using HTTP over the Internet or via a Local Area Network. With ThingSpeak, you can create sensor logging applications, location tracking applications, and a social network of things with status updates.

Graphite - A highly scalable real-time graphing system

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Squirrel - Fluent SQL generation for golang

Tipboard - Tipboard - in-house, tasty, local dashboarding system

RRDtool - RRDtool 1.x - Round Robin Database