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Comparison

Amazon Timestream vs ClickHouse

On the evidence we track, ClickHouse leads this comparison with a composite score of 63/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Amazon Timestream full profile →ClickHouse full profile →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Amazon Timestream52
★ClickHouse63
Score
Vioscale score
Amazon Timestream52 / 100medium · 61%
ClickHouse63 / 100medium · 60%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Timestream✓
ClickHouse✓
Model
Amazon Timestreamfreemium
ClickHousecommercial
Price level
Amazon Timestreamlow
ClickHouselow
Transparent
Amazon Timestream✗
ClickHouse✓
Integrations
Count
Amazon Timestream–
ClickHouse100
Security
Disclosure policy
Amazon Timestream✓
ClickHouse✓
Fedramp
Amazon Timestream✓
ClickHouse–
Gdpr
Amazon Timestream✓
ClickHouse✓
Hipaa
Amazon Timestream✓
ClickHouse✓
Iso27001
Amazon Timestream–
ClickHouse✓
Pci
Amazon Timestream✓
ClickHouse✓
Scorecard
Amazon Timestream–
ClickHouse4.9
Soc2
Amazon Timestream–
ClickHouse✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Amazon Timestream99.99
ClickHouse–
Status page
Amazon Timestream✓
ClickHouse✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Amazon Timestream–
ClickHouse1
Github stars
Amazon Timestream–
ClickHouse49,464
Activity
Commits last 30d
Amazon Timestream–
ClickHouse100
Release
History
Amazon Timestream–
ClickHouse20 items
License
Spdx
Amazon Timestream–
ClickHouseApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Amazon Timestream–
ClickHouseC++
Market
Availability
Amazon TimestreamAvailable worldwide
ClickHouseAvailable worldwide

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for time-series databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Query
Query language (SQL / PromQL / InfluxQL-Flux / Graphite)
Amazon TimestreamSQL
ClickHouseSQL
SQL compatibility
Amazon TimestreamFull SQL
ClickHouseFull SQL
Ingest
Ingest model
Amazon TimestreamPush
ClickHouseBoth
Model
Data model
Amazon TimestreamMetrics (labels/tags)
ClickHouseBoth
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups
Amazon Timestream-
ClickHouse-
Retention / TTL
Amazon Timestream-
ClickHouse-
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
Amazon Timestream-
ClickHousecolumnar
Performance
High-cardinality handling
Amazon TimestreamStrong
ClickHouseStrong
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale
Amazon TimestreamDistributed / sharded
ClickHouseDistributed / sharded
Replication / HA
Amazon Timestream✓
ClickHouse✓
Deployment
Deployment
Amazon TimestreamManaged
ClickHouseSelf-hosted
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible
Amazon Timestream-
ClickHouse-
Licensing
Licence class
Amazon TimestreamProprietary
ClickHousePermissive OSS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Amazon Timestream

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, fully managed time-series database service for workloads from low-latency queries to large-scale data ingestion. It offers multiple database engines including an open source InfluxDB variant with built-in time-series analytics functions.

Independently observed

ClickHouse

Leader

An open-source columnar database system designed to handle large-scale analytical workloads with extremely low latency. Excels at real-time analytics, observability (logs, metrics, traces), data warehousing, and AI/ML applications.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Amazon Timestream

Hybrid

On-demand hourly compute/storage or 1-year Database Savings Plans

  • On-DemandHourly compute and storage charges, no upfront commitments
  • Database Savings Plans1-year commitment with cost savings vs on-demand
as of verify ↗

ClickHouse

Leader
from $0.22/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

From $25.30/TB/mo + $0.2181/compute unit/hr. 30-day free trial.

  • Basic$25.30/TB/mo + $0.2181/compute unit/hr
    • Up to 1 TB storage
    • 8-12 GiB total memory
    • Backups every 24h, retained for 1 day
    • 1 availability zone
    • Export backups to own cloud account
    • +4 more
  • Scale$25.30/TB/mo + $0.2985/compute unit/hr
    • Unlimited storage
    • Configurable memory
    • Compute-compute separation
    • Configurable backups
    • 2+ availability zones
    • +5 more
  • Enterprise$25.30/TB/mo + $0.3903/compute unit/hr
    • Everything in Scale plan
    • SAML SSO
    • Private regions
    • Manual vertical scaling for custom profiles
    • Enterprise support with 30 min response time for Severity 1 issues
    • +6 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Amazon Timestream✓
ClickHouse✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Timestream✓
ClickHouse✓
Self-hosted
Amazon Timestream✗
ClickHouse✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Amazon Timestream

Not documented yet.

ClickHouse

Leader
6 total
  • Amazon S3
  • Kafka
  • Airbyte
  • Vector
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.