Alternatives to InfluxDB
Store time-stamped measurements for monitoring and real-time applications. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
InfluxDB
Store time-stamped measurements for monitoring and real-time applications.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as InfluxDB.
TimescaleDB
PostgreSQL extension that turns Postgres into a scalable time-series database.
TimescaleDB stores time-series data inside PostgreSQL, keeping standard Postgres tooling, while advanced clustering and cloud features sit behind the paid offering.
QuestDB
Query time-series data with a database focused on SQL and high-rate ingestion.
QuestDB focuses on time-oriented SQL queries and high-rate ingestion, with an open-source self-hosted edition and managed capabilities under separate terms.
VictoriaMetrics
Store and query monitoring metrics in a time-series database.
VictoriaMetrics stores monitoring metrics with Prometheus-compatible workflows in single-node or clustered deployments, with enterprise capabilities licensed separately.
GreptimeDB
Store observability data in a database queried through SQL and PromQL.
GreptimeDB stores time-series and related telemetry queried through SQL and PromQL, and supports object-storage-oriented deployments under Apache-2.0.
Grafana Mimir
Store Prometheus-compatible metrics over long periods at distributed scale.
Grafana Mimir stores Prometheus-compatible metrics long term with multi-tenancy under AGPL-3.0, but distributed operation requires substantial infrastructure configuration.
M3DB
Open-source distributed time-series database built for billions of metrics at scale.
M3DB is a Prometheus-compatible distributed time-series database built for billions of metrics, with complexity suited to very large deployments.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
ClickHouse
Columnar OLAP database widely used as a backend for logs, traces and metrics.
Elastic Stack
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats and Kibana combined for collecting, searching and visualizing logs and other data.
PostgreSQL
The open-source relational database with 35 years behind it, known for correctness, extensibility and a long feature list.
OpenSearch
Index and search data with an open-source search and analytics engine.
