--- title: InfluxDB Enterprise documentation description: > Documentation for InfluxDB Enterprise, which adds clustering, high availability, fine-grained authorization, and more to InfluxDB OSS. aliases: - /enterprise/v1.11/ menu: enterprise_influxdb_v1: name: InfluxDB Enterprise v1.11 weight: 1 --- InfluxDB Enterprise provides a time series database designed to handle high write and query loads and offers highly scalable clusters on your infrastructure with a management UI. Use for DevOps monitoring, IoT sensor data, and real-time analytics. Check out the key features that make InfluxDB Enterprise a great choice for working with time series data. If you're interested in working with InfluxDB Enterprise, visit [InfluxPortal](https://portal.influxdata.com/) to sign up, get a license key, and get started! ## Key features - High performance datastore written specifically for time series data. High ingest speed and data compression. - Provides high availability across your cluster and eliminates a single point of failure. - Written entirely in Go. Compiles into a single binary with no external dependencies. - Simple, high performing write and query HTTP APIs. - Plugin support for other data ingestion protocols such as Graphite, collectd, and OpenTSDB. - Expressive SQL-like query language tailored to easily query aggregated data. - Continuous queries automatically compute aggregate data to make frequent queries more efficient. - Tags let you index series for fast and efficient queries. - Retention policies efficiently auto-expire stale data. ## Next steps - [Install and deploy](/enterprise_influxdb/v1/introduction/installation/) - Review key [concepts](/enterprise_influxdb/v1/concepts/) - [Get started](/enterprise_influxdb/v1/introduction/getting-started/)