Use case
Databases for Time-series data
Metrics, sensor readings and events indexed by time. The leading options are Prometheus, InfluxDB and TimescaleDB.
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CNCF-graduated pull-based monitoring system with a local TSDB, PromQL and alerting rules.
Purpose-built time-series database, rebuilt in Rust on Arrow, DataFusion and Parquet for version 3.
PostgreSQL extension adding hypertables, columnar compression and continuous aggregates for time series.
Columnar time-series SQL database built for market data and very high ingest rates.
Column-store time-series engine with the q language, a fixture of capital-markets tick data.
Label-indexed log aggregation: Prometheus-style streams, chunks on object storage, LogQL queries.
Resource-frugal, Prometheus-compatible metrics database, run as a single binary or a sharded cluster.
Veteran metrics stack: Carbon ingestion, Whisper files and the render API that shaped modern dashboards.
Apache time-series database for industrial IoT with tree and table models and edge-to-cloud sync.
Industrial-IoT time-series database with a table-per-device model and built-in streaming and caching.
Grafana Labs' horizontally scalable, multi-tenant long-term store for Prometheus and OTLP metrics.
Rust observability database that keeps metrics, logs and traces in one columnar engine on object storage.
Serverless DataFrame database from Man Group: Pandas in, versioned columnar data on S3 out.
Sidecar-plus-object-storage layer giving Prometheus global queries, HA dedup and long retention.
Distributed time-series database and scripting platform for quant finance and industrial analytics.
Toshiba's memory-first container database for IoT time series, with per-container ACID and SQL.
CNCF multi-tenant, horizontally scalable long-term storage for Prometheus metrics on object storage.
HBase-backed time-series database from the Hadoop era; still in service, rarely chosen for new work.
Rust cloud-native time-series database with SQL on DataFusion and InfluxDB-style ingestion.
Distributed columnar time-series database, now sold as Quasar, for tick, sensor and industrial data.
CNCF sandbox distributed time-series database from Huawei Cloud, compatible with InfluxQL.
The dominant industrial data historian: time-series storage plus asset context for plants and grids.
Java time-series database layered on Cassandra or ScyllaDB, from the OpenTSDB lineage.
Uber-born distributed TSDB and aggregator for Prometheus-scale metrics with tunable replication.
Small-footprint, clusterable time-series database with a query language built for grouping series.
AWS time-series services: managed InfluxDB today, with serverless LiveAnalytics closed to new customers.
Korean time-series database for sensor data, bundled with MQTT, HTTP and dashboards in one binary.
Netflix's in-memory dimensional time-series database for operational metrics, queried with a stack language.
Distributed in-memory time-series database with PromQL, ingesting from Kafka and persisting to Cassandra.
Multi-model database for IoT and observability: time series, full-text, vector and key-value on Parquet.
Erlang metric store on riak_core and ZFS with a SQL-like query language; dormant since 2019.
Columnar tick database and array language from Kona's author, with JSON and SQL syntax; open-sourced in 2022.
Rackspace's multi-tenant metrics ingestion, rollup and query service on Cassandra; dormant since 2022.
Embedded time-series and relational database for microcontrollers, RTOS and edge AI devices.
Masterless wide-column database built for always-on writes across data centers.
Machine-data indexing and search platform with schema-on-read SPL queries, now owned by Cisco.
C++ rewrite of Cassandra with shard-per-core design; also speaks the DynamoDB API.
Real-time analytics database for sub-second slice-and-dice over streaming event data.
Google's managed wide-column store, the original Bigtable, with HBase API and SQL access.
Microsoft's Kusto engine: fast KQL analytics over logs, telemetry and time series at petabyte scale.
Distributed SQL database built on Lucene for real-time analytics over machine, IoT and JSON data.
Hadoop's Bigtable clone: strongly consistent wide-column tables on top of HDFS.
Low-maintenance embeddable RDBMS with built-in TimeSeries, still quietly running retail and telco systems.
Single-binary Rust observability platform storing logs, metrics and traces as Parquet on object storage.
Log database from the VictoriaMetrics team: schemaless ingestion, LogsQL and low RAM and disk use.
Columnar storage engine for fast analytics on fast-changing data, paired with Impala or Spark.
Rust telemetry datalake for logs, metrics and traces on S3, queried with SQL.
Log-structured, embeddable key-value engine in pure Rust with keyspaces and transactions.
Cloud-native search engine on object storage for logs and traces, built on Tantivy.
Managed event and telemetry store with schema-on-read ingest and the piped APL query language.
GPU- and vector-accelerated database for real-time spatial, time-series and vector analytics.
KX's vector database for time-aware AI search, with temporal similarity and hybrid retrieval.
Embedded in-memory and hybrid database for devices, real-time systems and time-series analytics.
Distributed vector database from DataJaguar that also handles time series and geospatial data.
Serverless, CQL-compatible Cassandra service on AWS with no clusters to manage.
Streaming data lake for log-scale event data, with ClickHouse-based SQL over object storage.
Flat-file relational database at the heart of BRTT's Antelope seismic and environmental monitoring suite.
Hosted RDF triple store with SPARQL 1.1, valid-time indexing and an MCP endpoint on every repository.
Twitter's in-house, multi-tenant, eventually consistent key-value store with pluggable storage engines.
The default document database: flexible BSON documents, rich queries and built-in sharding.
Open-source columnar OLAP database known for very fast aggregations over billions of rows.
Veteran MPP columnar analytics database from the C-Store lineage, now owned by Rocket Software.
ACID document database for .NET and beyond, with auto-indexing, Corax search and multi-master replication.
Postgres extension that shards tables across nodes for multi-tenant SaaS and real-time analytics.
MongoDB's own multi-cloud DBaaS, bundling search, vector search and stream processing.
MySQL-compatible cloud-native HTAP database on object storage, with vector search and snapshots.
Drop-in MongoDB Community build with enterprise features like encryption, LDAP and hot backup.
Compact in-memory and flash relational DBMS for embedded, telecom and SCADA systems, sold by Enea.
Converged C/C++ NoSQL platform mixing key-value, documents, time-series, stream processing, graph and ML.
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