Our intention with InfluxDB Core is that it's useful to large audience. Just not the group of people seeking a historical TSDB. It's a collector, processor, and recent data TSDB. If you're familiar with the TICK stack from our 1.x line, it's like Telegraf (the data collector), Kapacitor (the processor and monitoring agent), and an InfluxDB that is better on the most recent data.
The InfluxDB part of it is more narrowly scoped than previous versions, but the Telegraf and Kapacitor parts are much more feature rich than those previous products.
The InfluxDB part of it is more narrowly scoped than previous versions, but the Telegraf and Kapacitor parts are much more feature rich than those previous products.