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Best Time-Series Databases Tools
Explore leading tools in the Time-Series Databases category, including open-source options and SaaS products. Compare features, use cases, and find the best fit for your workflow.
7 open-source projects · 4 SaaS products
Top open-source Time-Series Databases
These projects are active, self-hostable choices for knowledge management teams evaluating alternatives to SaaS tools.
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- 24,544
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- AGPL-3.0
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- 3 days ago

TimescaleDB
PostgreSQL extension delivering high-performance real-time analytics on time-series data
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- 20,950
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- Unknown
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- 3 days ago

QuestDB
Blazing‑fast time‑series database for real‑time analytics with low‑latency SQL
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- 16,414
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- Apache-2.0
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- 3 days ago

CnosDB
High-performance distributed time-series database for IoT and observability
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- 1,732
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- AGPL-3.0
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- 2 months ago
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- Apache-2.0
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- 4 months ago
TDengine delivers fast ingestion, compression, and AI‑enhanced analytics for billions of IoT sensors, supporting Linux, macOS and Kubernetes deployments with built‑in stream processing and RESTful access.
Popular SaaS Platforms to Replace
Understand the commercial incumbents teams migrate from and how many open-source alternatives exist for each product.
Amazon Timestream
Serverless time-series database for IoT, metrics, and operational telemetry
Azure Data Explorer
Fast analytics database for logs, telemetry, and time-series (Kusto)
KX kdb+
High-performance time-series database and real-time analytics engine
Quasar
Real-time time-series data platform to capture, compress, and query high-velocity streams
Amazon Timestream is a fully managed time-series database with high-ingest writes, automatic tiering (memory for recent data, cost-optimized storage for historical), built-in time functions and SQL, data lifecycle policies, and integrations with AWS services for analytics and dashboards.
Frequently replaced when teams want private deployments and lower TCO.
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