go-mysql vs InfluxDB

go-mysql

a powerful mysql toolset with Go (by siddontang)

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InfluxDB

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

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go-mysql		InfluxDB
	Project
1	Mentions	28
4,410	Stars	27,653
1.2%	Growth	1.3%
7.6	Activity	9.9
8 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Go	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.

go-mysql

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-mysql. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-03.

Stream MySQL changes
3 projects | /r/golang | 3 Feb 2023

I like maxwell but I've used this as well. https://github.com/go-mysql-org/go-mysql

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 go-mysql and InfluxDB you can also consider the following projects:

tidb - TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed, MySQL-Compatible database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Try AI-powered Chat2Query free at : https://tidbcloud.com/free-trial

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

cockroach - CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.

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.

dgraph - The high-performance database for modern applications

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

goose

Graphite - A highly scalable real-time graphing system

tiedot - A rudimentary implementation of a basic document (NoSQL) database in Go

Squirrel - Fluent SQL generation for golang

bolt

RRDtool - RRDtool 1.x - Round Robin Database