If you are writing an article about time series databases, and you don't mention KDB - straight to jail. It is the grandfather of time series and predates influx by about a decade. It is still the fastest out there too. It is used by about every major financial and trading institution in the US and Europe.
Everybody thinks TSDB are something new-ish, but they've been around since the days of APL. All you youngins disappointment me every time you write about time series, vector languages, or data-oriented programming and entirely neglect all the work that comes under the APL/Vector umbrella. SOA and DOD have been around for 50+ years, and they didn't start with c++ or Pandas.
Now the creator, Arthur Whitney, has a new one out called Shakti that is even faster (but has also ditched from the "niceties" of Q.