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TDengine alternatives

On the evidence we track, the strongest alternative to TDengine is Prometheus at 67/100. TDengine itself ranks #5 of 12 in time-series databases. Every product below is scored on the same independent signals, so the ranking is comparable rather than a matter of opinion.

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Ranked alternatives to TDengine

  1. 167
    Prometheus

    An open-source monitoring system that collects metrics from applications and infrastructure via scraping, storing them as a time-series database for querying an

    medium · 57%
    vs TDengine →
  2. 266
    ClickHouse

    High-performance, open-source database designed for fast analytical queries at scale

    medium · 60%
    vs TDengine →
  3. 358
    InfluxDB

    A distributed database purpose-built for rapidly collecting and querying time-stamped observability data at scale

    medium · 68%
    vs TDengine →
  4. 457
    TimescaleDB

    A PostgreSQL extension for scaling time-series and operational data workloads to petabyte volumes

    medium · 62%
    vs TDengine →
  5. 551
    M3DB

    Open-source distributed database for collecting and querying time series metrics at scale

    medium · 51%
    vs TDengine →
  6. 650
    GreptimeDB

    An open-source columnar database built for storing and querying observability data at scale

    medium · 57%
    vs TDengine →
  7. 750
    QuestDB

    A fast time-series database using open data formats for analytics and event processing

    medium · 70%
    vs TDengine →
  8. 847
    Amazon Timestream

    Managed time-series database service with optimized performance, security, and automatic scaling

    medium · 70%
    vs TDengine →
  9. 945
    VictoriaMetrics

    A cost-efficient time-series database for metrics storage and querying at scale

    medium · 55%
    vs TDengine →
  10. 1035
    OpenTSDB

    A distributed database engineered for time-series metrics at massive scale

    low · 44%
    vs TDengine →
  11. 1130
    KairosDB

    A time series database for distributed, multi-cluster deployments

    medium · 55%
    vs TDengine →
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This ranking uses our balanced weighting. Say what actually matters to you (budget, compliance, self-hosting, team size) and the same time-series databases get reordered against that instead.

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Why these ones

An alternative here means a product in the same category as TDengine (Time-Series Databases), ranked by the vioscaleAI composite: a confidence-weighted blend of independent signals such as adoption, release activity, pricing transparency and security posture. There are no user reviews in it, and no vendor can pay to appear or to rank higher. Where we have not confirmed something, we show that rather than guessing.

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