Every category where a model named InfluxDB for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Time series databases	Data platform	16%	2 of 66	19%	70	accepted challenger
Telemetry pipelines	IT operations and endpoint	0%	63 of 124	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37%
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	45 of 79	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Datadog at 28%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
NoSQL databases	Data platform	0%	30 of 73	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by MongoDB at 74%	▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	50 of 80	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 27%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for InfluxDB yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated InfluxDB across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	0	2	1	5
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	1	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	4	1	1	6
Perplexity Sonar	0	3	0	1	4
Grok 4.20	1	3	2	1	7
Mistral Small	3	1	2	0	6
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2	1	1	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	3	3	1	7
Kimi K2	1	3	1	2	7
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	1	3	6
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	3	1	7
GPT-6 Luna	0	4	0	1	5
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	3	0	0	3

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct38 labels9

Paraphrase39 labels9

Comparative38 labels14not counted in share

Budget-constrained27 labels2

Scale-constrained29 labels4

Negative35 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative206 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 39 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Start with InfluxDB Cloud if you're new to TSDBs or focused on monitoring/IoT—it's the most adopted, user-friendly for mid-market” Grok 4.20 · Time series DBs · direct prompt · first choice

“InfluxDB Cloud or TimescaleDB are often ideal because they balance ease of use, scalability, and cost-effectiveness” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Time series DBs · direct prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend InfluxDB for most mid-sized B2B companies that need to store and analyze metrics and sensor data.” Mistral Small · Time series DBs · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“InfluxDB and TimescaleDB are the top choices due to their free/open-source availability” Mistral Small · Time series DBs · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Older versions (v1) reached end-of-life years ago, with no security patches or support—avoid for new projects.” Grok 4.20 · Time series DBs · negative prompt · hard negative

“Still risky for production; consider newer versions or alternatives.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Time series DBs · negative prompt · hard negative

“For new projects, avoid InfluxDB 1/2.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Time series DBs · negative prompt · hard negative

“High cardinality has been a particularly significant pain point for InfluxDB v1/v2, where it caused significant memory pressure and performance degradation” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Time series DBs · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as InfluxDB, over the 202 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and InfluxDB was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TimescaleDB178 of 20294Compare →

QuestDB132 of 2023Compare →

Prometheus108 of 2025Compare →

ClickHouse Cloud95 of 2020Not among the top eight

VictoriaMetrics90 of 20216Compare →

Amazon Timestream66 of 2022Not among the top eight

PostgreSQL31 of 2024Compare →

TDengine28 of 2020Not among the top eight

OpenTSDB24 of 2020Not among the top eight

MySQL16 of 2020Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named InfluxDB. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 176 of the 202 answers that named InfluxDB and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

tigerdata.com139

guideflow.com130

questdb.com103

influxdata.comYour site97

mgsoftware.nl80

viasocket.com68

sourceforge.net54

us.fitgap.com54

clickhouse.com53

aws.amazon.com39

720 of the 817 domain citations in answers naming InfluxDB came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/time-series-database-software128

tigerdata.com/learn/the-best-time-series-databases-compared118

questdb.com/blog/best-time-series-databases88

mgsoftware.nl/en/tools/best-time-series-databases80

viasocket.com/discovery/blog/0q7cxp/top-time-series-databases-for-real-time-analytics59

tigerdata.com/learn/best-managed-time-series-databases-in-202649

clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/what-is-time-series-database43

influxdata.com/comparison34

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

influxdata.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, InfluxDB takes 16% of first choices and TimescaleDB takes 63%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “time series database”

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not in the top ten

Position for “time series databases”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 4,400 a month (“influxdb”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 350 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 46,684 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 9,095 · 611 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 10,757
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 62 image, 55 text, 3 video · 44 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2024, as InfluxData Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 51 in the year, 69 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

16%

rank 2 of 66 in time series dbs

Segment leader

63%

TimescaleDB

First choices: 24 across its categories
Named in: 202 answers
Its own site cited: in 176 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on influxdata.com

13,710

subdomains included

Content

3,508

counted in the table below

Documentation

8,995

Product · Integration

59 · 349

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	2,211	15	2026-09-15	Infra monitoring, APM
Case study	306	17	2026-09-28	APM
Webinar or virtual event	272	undated		Infra monitoring, APM
Template or tool	144	undated
Glossary or explainer	142	0	2017-04-26	ETL, APM
Report or ebook	135	undated
News or press	109	0	2017-05-09
Comparison	85	undated		SIEM, SOAR
Conference or event	59	undated
Podcast or video	45	undated

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2026-09-23Seadrill case study

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page influxdata.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as InfluxDB

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as InfluxDB; a claim can dispute any of them.

InfluxDB 3 5InfluxDB Cloud 5InfluxDB (3.0 Core Open Source) 1InfluxDB (Community Edition) 1InfluxDB (OSS version) 1InfluxDB (Open Source Version) 1InfluxDB (v3) 1InfluxDB 0.8 1InfluxDB 0.8/0.9 1InfluxDB 3 (IOx) 1InfluxDB 3.0 1

Follow InfluxDB

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

InfluxDB is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The database for real-time systems powering physical AI
influxdata.com
For: Developers
influxdata.com
Price stated: Start free. Scale when you're ready. influxdata.com/customers
Free plan or trial: Try it For Free influxdata.com/use-cases
Integrations claimed: 400 influxdata.com
Customers named: LeoLabsSeadrillEutelsat OneWebCiscoEpsilon3LoftMAJiKCapital One
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, certifications, hosting

What InfluxDB's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: influxdata.com, influxdata.com/trust, influxdata.com/use-cases, influxdata.com/customers, influxdata.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when InfluxDB's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as InfluxDB, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for InfluxDB by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where InfluxDB is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name InfluxDB, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where InfluxDB is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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InfluxDB is among the products AI models recommend first in Time series databases this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/time-series-databases/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/influxdb--time-series-databases-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Time series databases, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Time series databases standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Time series databases standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.