TimescaleDB alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of TimescaleDB, shown against it.

TimescaleDB InfluxDB QuestDB VictoriaMetrics
Vendor Tiger Data, Inc. (formerly Timescale) InfluxData, Inc. QuestDB Technology Inc. VictoriaMetrics, Inc.
Pricing model Free tier + paid plans Free tier + paid plans Free tier + paid plans Free tier + paid plans
Free tier Yes Yes Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source Yes (Apache-2.0) Yes (MIT) Yes (Apache-2.0) Yes (Apache-2.0)
Best for Teams already on PostgreSQL who need time-series performance without adopting a separate database. Teams building infrastructure, IoT or sensor monitoring systems that need a database purpose-built for time series. Teams needing very high write throughput for financial, IoT or metrics time-series data with SQL access. SRE and platform teams outgrowing Prometheus's storage or cardinality limits without changing their query language.
Pricing

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.

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 open-source core is free; Enterprise and Cloud pricing require contacting sales, with no published rate card.

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

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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • High-throughput columnar ingestion
  • SQL with SAMPLE BY and ASOF JOIN extensions
  • InfluxDB line protocol and Postgres wire protocol support
  • SIMD-optimized vectorized query execution
  • Out-of-order data ingestion handling
  • High availability and RBAC (Enterprise)
  • 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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