Performance upgrade preview

InfluxDB 3 Enterprise includes a private preview of major performance and feature updates. These updates represent the foundation for the upcoming 3.10 and 3.11 releases. Available in beta now for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, many of these improvements will be coming to InfluxDB 3 Core in subsequent release cycles.

Key improvements

• Faster single-series queries: Optimized data path for fetching specific trends over long time windows, with single-digit millisecond response times.
• Consistent resource usage: Reduced CPU and memory spikes during heavy compaction or ingestion bursts through key-range partitioning.
• Wide-and-sparse table support: Handles schemas with up to hundreds of thousands of columns and dynamic schema evolution without expensive rewrites.
• Automatic distinct value caches: Dramatically reduced latency for metadata queries like SHOW TAG VALUES in InfluxQL.

Enable the preview

Add the --use-pacha-tree flag to your normal influxdb3 serve startup command:

influxdb3 serve \
  --node-id host01 \
  --cluster-id cluster01 \
  --object-store file \
  --data-dir ~/.influxdb3 \
  --use-pacha-tree

The flag exposes additional configuration options prefixed with --pt-. See Configure the preview for tuning options, or Monitor the preview for system tables and telemetry.

Who should try the preview

Consider enabling the preview in your staging or development environment if you have workloads with high cardinality, wide tables, frequent backfill, or query-heavy access patterns.

Your feedback on stability and speed at scale helps inform the development of features planned for general availability in the 3.10 and 3.11 releases.