Updated: May 13 2019

This is not an exhaustive list. If you think I should change something, please leave a comment here or send me a message on Twitter. I’ll try to keep it up-to-date based on feedback and anything new I find. There is a changelog at the end.

You can also submit a PR to update this page: https://github.com/Preetam/misframe/blob/master/content/2016/04/09/tsdb-list.md

Open source

These are either time series databases or general-purpose databases that work well with time series. Some are layers on top of existing databases.

Proprietary or internal

These are either proprietary or internal, and not open source.

Google BigQuery Managed data warehouse for analytics hosted on Google Cloud BigQuery can do lots of things in addition to time series (also see RedShift)

Infiniflux Time series DBMS with SQL

IRONdb Scalable storage for a Graphite infrastructure. IRONdb is a new product by Circonus, who also created “Snowth” a few years ago (see below).

kdb+ by Kx Systems Very popular in the financial industry

AWS Redshift Managed data warehouse for analytics hosted on AWS Redshift can do lots of things in addition to time series (also see BigQuery)

Rocana (acquired by Splunk) Proprietary columnar TSDB using Apache Lucene, Kafka, and HDFS

eXtremeDB Made for financial data Columnar, ACID-compliant, SQL support

Facebook Scuba Fast, scalable, distributed, in-memory database

quasardb Distributed transactional key-value store with distributed secondary indexes and native time series support Written in C++14

SnappyData fuses Apache Spark with a highly available, multi-tenanted in-memory database OLTP + OLAP on streaming data

TempoIQ IoT platform

VictoriaMetrics Long-term remote storage for Prometheus



Things to look at for ideas

These are not exactly TSDBs, but are interesting resources to take a look at.

Changelog