What’s New in InfluxDB 3.12: Distributed Compaction, 3x Faster Imports, and More Control

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Time series deployments rarely grow the way they were planned. A single-node pilot becomes a multi-node fleet, an afternoon’s worth of test data becomes weeks of backfill that has to land before anyone can query it, and three teams end up writing to a database built for one. InfluxDB 3.11 delivered a higher-performance foundation for complex time series workloads, with significant performance…

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