"Massively better" doesn't mean deployable to production either. Especially not if you've only tested with a single point of failure with a single sized payload. But I'm willing to give it a third (and final) trial:

1) Does "DELETE * FROM foo" still cause the system to lockup, freeze, and require a restart to free memory? Or are there other conditions/queries that cause the system to become unstable?

2) There's no README/CHANGELOG/dependencies info on the download page. Which is the preferred version of Go to install on my servers for Influxdb - 1.4 or 1.5?