InfluxData has released InfluxDB 3.6 for both Core and Enterprise, a  new version which incorporates AI and performance improvements. But, first of all what's the difference between Core and Enterprise?

Core is the enhanced InfluxDB data engine for real-time applications that delivers higher performance, real-time querying and fast ingestion amongst others. In InfluxDB 3 Core Released In Public Alpha we reported that it was open sourced as dual-licensed under MIT or Apache 2.

The Enterprise version is the premium commercial offering that adds high availability, long-term data retention, clustering, fine-grained security and management capabilities for production environments.

For instance, the Enterprise edition is used at Amazon in the shape of Amazon Timestream, a fully-managed time series database service that makes it easy for application developers and DevOps teams to run InfluxDB databases on AWS for real-time time-series applications using open-source APIs. These applications range from sales forecasting to inventory management, from forecasting disease outbreaks to financial market data and from IoT sensor data to real-time dashboards.

The new version of InfluxDB 3.6 updates the InfluxDB Explorer UI to version 1.4, sporting AI capabilities with Ask AI, a new beta feature that brings natural language to time series analysis. Of course Explorer UI is the standalone web application designed for visualizing, querying, and managing data stored in InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise and provides an intuitive interface for interacting with your time series data.

Ask AI uses natural language prompting to interact with the database, acting as your database developer or analyst sidekick. For the first target group it can perform operational tasks like creating databases and for the latter it allows to fire questions on data like “give me a chart of average temperature this week".

The other key upgrade that this new version introduces is about the core Processing Engine to include support for multifile Python plugins, direct uploads and updates, built-in observability, and tighter security controls. These improvements make code easier to maintain and allows users to iterate faster on complex data processing logic.

Finally, the way of starting up the database has been greatly simplified with Quick Start. Under it and for development or local environments only, users no longer need to configure instance or storage information before running the database. As such Quick Start is for developers who want to test InfluxDB without setup overhead, or want to run in a simple local environment.

Of course, the new version comes with the usual bug fixes and performance improvements as well.

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