Influx database limitations

Influx database use in
FactoryTalk Optix
has specific limitations, which are described in this section.

SQL support

Influx database does not directly support SQL. A parser translates the SQL queries to Influx-based query language. Only specific SQL commands are supported.
SQL and InfluxQL comparison
Feature
SQL
InfluxQL
WHERE clause
Yes
Yes
GROUP BY clause
Yes
not supported
ORDER BY clause
Yes
partial support
HAVING
Yes
not supported
LIMIT and SLIMIT clauses
Yes
Yes
OFFSET and SOFFSET clauses
Yes
Yes
EXTRACT clause
Yes
not supported
CHAR_LENGTH clause
Yes
not supported
Timezone queries
not supported
not supported
Subqueries
Yes
Yes
Regular expressions
not supported
not supported