Towards Data Science | Processing Time Series Data in Real-Time with InfluxDB and Structured Streaming

In this article published by Towards Data Science, Vibhor Nigam demonstrates how to utilize open-source InfluxDB with Spark's structured streaming to process, store, and visualize time series data in real-time. He provides a step-by-step walkthrough for setting up a single node instance of InfluxDB and extending the ForeachWriter of Spark to use it for writing to InfluxDB. The author highlights the efficiency of InfluxDB in data storage and its ease of use, showcasing significant compression capabilities that can reduce large datasets by nearly half.