From f7627266c158c8450e7f2c15db3a080a875bf447 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Dix Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:55:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b286a2435f..abe9b678eb 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # InfluxDB IOx -InfluxDB IOx (short for Iron Oxide, pronounced InfluxDB "eye-ox") is the future core of InfluxDB. +InfluxDB IOx (short for Iron Oxide, pronounced InfluxDB "eye-ox") is the future core of InfluxDB, an open source time series database. The name is in homage to Rust, the language this project is written in. It is built using [Apache Arrow](https://arrow.apache.org/) and [DataFusion](https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2019/02/04/datafusion-donation/) among other things. InfluxDB IOx aims to be: