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THINGWORX
LONG TERM
DATA STORAGE
WITH INFLUXDB
Ward Bowman
Sr. Director Enterprise Deployment Center

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• Global Software Company, $1B+ Revenue
• Design, Manufacture, Operate, and Service
“Things”
• Leading Industrial Innovation Platform
and Solutions
• Global Network of 400K+ Developers
and 1K+ Partners
2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

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Leading IIoT
Solutions Platform
Leading Time Series
Data Storage Platform
InfluxDB is the only scalable timeseries storage option recommended for ThingWorx customers today
THINGWORX AND INFLUXDB

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“The Data Lake”
IIOT Platform
DATA FLOW BEST PRACTICE – ONLY SEND WHAT YOU NEED!
Warm Cold
Hot Database
(i.e. in ThingWorx)
Other Systems
ERP, CRM,
Enterprise
Analytics, …
IIOT
Application(s)
Edge streaming data not in need of
“near real time processing” for IIOT Apps / Use-Cases
Edge streaming data that needs
to be processed in near real time
for IIOT Apps / Use-Cases
Device interactions
IIOT App Results,
Audit History,
“Hot to Warm” Archive or
Downsample, …
Data for “historical”
(less than near real time)
IIOT App Use-Cases
Data for non-IIOT
App Use-Cases
Data from other systems
for IIOT App Use-Cases
IIOT-triggered events to
other systems
What specific data do your IIOT applications
need to deliver its busines outcome?
What percentage of your IIOT data needs to be
“processed” versus simply “stored” or “read”?
When do your applications need that data?
Real-time? On demand?
How is that data being sent?
Protocols? Streaming or Batches? Pull or Push?
Where is that data already being sent or
stored? Could the IIOT application(s) get it
from there more efficiently?
Historian or Data Lake
Other Enterprise Application
“The Edge”
ThingWorx SDK,
REST API,
Kepware, …
Data Concentrator
or Pre-Processor

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ThingWorx
Server
Time Series Database
(InfluxDB)
Things
Connection
Server
Users
Model Database
(PostgreSQL/ MS SQL)
Purpose-built, modern time series platform
positioned as ThingWorx transactional
persistence provider
Significant ingestion scale
Perform real-time queries across large data
sets in a non-blocking manner
Down-sampling and retention policies to
reduce storage costs and optimize the DB
engine
Perform complex, time-bound queries to
extract meaningful insights from the data
HOW INFLUXDB WORKS WITH THINGWORX

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INFLUXDB IS A DIFFERENTIATOR
[CELLRANGE]
H2
[CELLRANGE]
SQLServer
26,000 WPS
112 HTTP Ops
[CELLRANGE]
PostgreSQL
47,000 WPS
122 HTTP Ops
[CELLRANGE]
InfluxDB Open Source +
PostgreSQL
90,000 WPS
120 HTTP Ops
[CELLRANGE]
InfluxDB Open Source +
PostgreSQL
203,000 WPS
238 HTTP Ops
0 HTTP Ops
50 HTTP Ops
100 HTTP Ops
150 HTTP Ops
200 HTTP Ops
250 HTTP Ops
0 WPS 50,000 WPS 100,000 WPS 150,000 WPS 200,000 WPS 250,000 WPS
When included in the ThingWorx configuration,
InfluxDB is a key differentiator.

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•InfluxDB open source OSS (single node)
Single node only.
Community-based Influx support available using the Influx Community site at InfluxData Community Forums.
•InfluxDB Enterprise.
If you are looking for a data store for higher volumes and velocity data than what is currently available with other databases, then
the following benefits are possible with InfluxDB Enterprise:
Higher rate of ingestion of data.
THINGWORX AND INFLUXDB
Using InfluxDB with ThingWorx
You can have more than one data repository for run time data. For example,
you can keep relational data in PostgreSQL, while using InfluxDB for high
volume stream and value stream data. When you define a stream or value
stream, ThingWorx uses the default run time data store provider, but you can
configure it to use any defined persistence provider. You can still export data
from other data providers and import to InfluxDB. ThingWorx handles the
data abstraction.
◦Cloud-friendly architecture (horizontal scale, only with InfluxDB Enterprise).
◦High availability available

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PTC AND INFLUXDATA PARTNERSHIP
The only scalable timeseries storage option recommended for
ThingWorx customers today.
For net new 9x cloud customers, InfluxDB will be available as a part of
PTC’s cloud offering on the Azure cloud.
For on-premise or customers with their own cloud deployments, InfluxDB
should be added to avoid risks at scale.

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ptc.com
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