Up to which level is that true? If I have several sensors recording at a 
different time, I guess I should use the sensor name as a tag instead of having 
a field for each sensor and only one field filled filled per point? What would 
be the upsides and downsides of the two solutions?

On Thursday, 7 July 2016 23:00:37 UTC+2, Sean Beckett  wrote:
> InfluxDB does not store null values in any way. There is no performance or 
> storage penalty from having a field that appears on only one or some points 
> in a measurement.
> 
> 
> Note that if you explicitly write field=0, or field="0" or field="null" the 
> system will store that as a number, string, and string, respectively. A point 
> with field= will be invalid and fail to write. A point that does not mention 
> a field at all will store nothing for that field.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:25 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I have a measurement that has a lot of fields, and during some of the 
> entries that are a large amount of the fields which are not used. Does influx 
> waste any space by having empty values for those fields. My other option was 
> to split the fields up into different measurements, but then this would 
> increase the series cardinality, because all measurments would have 2 tags, 
> which would each be the same two tags for each measurement.
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