InfluxDB is a time series database built from the ground up to handle high write and query loads. InfluxDB is meant to be used as a backing store for any use case involving large amounts of timestamped data, including DevOps monitoring, application metrics, IoT sensor data, and real-time analytics.
For HTTP API see https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.8/tools/api/#influxdb-1-x-http-endpoints