Amazon Timestream alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of Amazon Timestream, shown against it.

Amazon Timestream InfluxDB TimescaleDB VictoriaMetrics
Vendor Amazon Web Services InfluxData, Inc. Tiger Data, Inc. (formerly Timescale) VictoriaMetrics, Inc.
Pricing model Usage-based Free tier + paid plans Free tier + paid plans Free tier + paid plans
Free tier No Yes Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source No Yes (MIT) Yes (Apache-2.0) Yes (Apache-2.0)
Best for AWS-centric teams wanting a managed time-series database without operating their own cluster. Teams building infrastructure, IoT or sensor monitoring systems that need a database purpose-built for time series. Teams already on PostgreSQL who need time-series performance without adopting a separate database. SRE and platform teams outgrowing Prometheus's storage or cardinality limits without changing their query language.
Pricing

LiveAnalytics bills separately for writes, query compute (Timestream Compute Units) and memory/magnetic storage; Timestream for InfluxDB bills by instance-hour and storage, with rates not published in a flat table.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Core is free and self-hosted; Enterprise and the managed Cloud Dedicated tier are custom-priced, and Cloud Serverless is metered by ingestion, query and storage usage with a starting free credit.

Core (OSS) Free
Cloud Serverless Usage-based
Enterprise / Cloud Dedicated Custom pricing

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

The self-hosted extension is free; the managed Tiger Cloud service starts at a flat monthly rate and scales with compute/memory, with a custom-priced Enterprise tier.

Performance From $30/month
Scale From $36/month
Enterprise Custom pricing

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

The open-source database is free; Enterprise licensing is custom-quoted with no published price list.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

Features
  • Serverless auto-tiering of recent vs. historical data (LiveAnalytics)
  • Managed InfluxDB 2 and 3 deployments
  • Native integration with AWS IoT Core and Kinesis
  • Multi-AZ high availability options
  • SQL-based query interface (LiveAnalytics)
  • Pay-per-use billing with no upfront commitment
  • Columnar time-series storage on Arrow/Parquet
  • SQL and InfluxQL query support
  • High-throughput write ingestion
  • Built-in retention policies and downsampling
  • Telegraf agent for metrics collection
  • High availability and read replicas (Enterprise/Cloud Dedicated)
  • Automatic time-based partitioning (hypertables)
  • Native compression for time-series columns
  • Continuous aggregates (materialized rollups)
  • Full PostgreSQL SQL compatibility and joins
  • High availability and read replicas (Tiger Cloud)
  • Point-in-time recovery
  • PromQL/MetricsQL compatible querying
  • Prometheus remote-write, Graphite, InfluxDB and OpenTelemetry ingestion
  • High compression for high-cardinality metrics
  • Single-node and horizontally scalable cluster modes
  • Long-term retention at lower storage cost than raw Prometheus
  • Downsampling and multi-tenancy (Enterprise)

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