influxdata / influxdata/influxdb-client-csharp

Solution to write large amount of points

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Description

__Proposal:__
Hi, I have a multi-threading program that contain 80,000 field, the data changed ~10ms.
Is there any efficient method to write that amount of data to a local Influx DB?

__Current behavior:__
I have implemented the sample of batching write method that create multi-thread, each thread managed 5000 items and write items to db every 10ms.
```
using InfluxDB.Client;
using InfluxDB.Client.Api.Domain;
using InfluxDB.Client.Core;
using InfluxDB.Client.Writes;
using System.Diagnostics;

internal class Program
{
private const string Host = "http://localhost:8086";
private static string Username = "admin";
private const string Password = "password";
private const string Bucket = "PERFORMANCE";
private const string Organization = "ORG";

private static InfluxDBClient _client;

private static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
_client = CreateClient();
List influxItems = Enumerable.Range(1, 80_000).Select(x => new InfluxItem(x)).ToList();
List influxBatches = new List();
var batches = influxItems.Select((x, i) => new { Index = i, Value = x })
.GroupBy(x => x.Index / 5000)
.Select(x => x.Select(v => v.Value).ToList())
.ToList();
for (int i = 0; i < batches.Count; i++)
influxBatches.Add(new($"Batch{i:000}", batches[i], _client));
Parallel.ForEach(influxBatches, x => Task.Run(x.WriteLoop));
while (true)
{
influxBatches.ForEach(x => Console.WriteLine($"Batch {x.BatchName} elapsed: {x.ExecutionMillisecond:0.00}"));
await Task.Delay(10);
}
}

private static InfluxDBClient CreateClient()
{
var builder = InfluxDBClientOptions.Builder.CreateNew();
builder.Url(Host);
builder.Authenticate(Username, Password.ToCharArray());
//builder.AuthenticateToken(Token);
builder.Bucket(Bucket);
builder.Org(Organization);
builder.LogLevel(LogLevel.None);
builder.TimeOut(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(600));
return new(builder.Build());
}
}

public class InfluxItem
{
public string? BatchName { get; set; }
private readonly string _field;
private float _value;
private DateTime _timestamp;
public PointData InfluxPoint => PointData.Measurement("Test")
.Field(_field, _value)
.Tag("BatchName", BatchName)
.Timestamp(_timestamp, WritePrecision.Ns);

public InfluxItem(int fieldCount)
{
_field = $"Influx{fieldCount:000000}";
_value = 0;
}

public void UpdateValue()
{
_value += 0.1f;
_timestamp = DateTime.Now;
}
}

public class InfluxBatch
{
private readonly InfluxDBClient _client;

public string BatchName { get; set; }

public List InfluxItems { get; set; }
public double ExecutionMillisecond { get; set; }

public InfluxBatch(string batchName, List influxItems, InfluxDBClient client)
{
InfluxItems = influxItems;
_client = client;
BatchName = batchName;
InfluxItems.ForEach(x => x.BatchName = batchName);
}

public async Task WriteLoop()
{
var stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
while (true)
{
stopwatch.Restart();
InfluxItems.ForEach(x => x.UpdateValue());
var points = InfluxItems.Select(x => x.InfluxPoint).ToList();
await _client.GetWriteApiAsync().WritePointsAsync(points);
stopwatch.Stop();
ExecutionMillisecond = stopwatch.Elapsed.Milliseconds / 1000.0;
await Task.Delay(10);
}
}
}
```
The execution time of each thread to update and write data to db < 1ms. That mean the interval between each datapoint < 11ms. But when I check the update frequency from query, the gap time > 200ms.
```
|> elapsed(unit: 1ms)
```

__Desired behavior:__
Is there any efficient method to write large amount of data to influx DB without ?

__Alternatives considered:__
Server specs:
CPU: Intel Xeon Silver 4210 (20 CPUs)
Ram: 128GB
Database storage: Local disk, HDD: xTB

__Use case:__
This program gather the factory sensor data.

Thank you!

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No repository files or tests are named. Start by reproducing the provided C# batching program and inspecting the client behavior around GetWriteApiAsync().WritePointsAsync and the query used to measure elapsed time. Done means identifying and documenting a supported efficient approach for this write volume, with evidence from a repeatable measurement.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp
Domain
databases, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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