Comparison

Amazon Timestream vs Prometheus

On the evidence we track, Prometheus leads this comparison with a composite score of 69/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Amazon Timestream52
Prometheus69
Score
Vioscale score
Amazon Timestream52 / 100medium · 61%
Prometheus69 / 100medium · 58%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Model
Amazon Timestreamfreemium
Prometheusopen_source
Price level
Amazon Timestreamlow
Prometheusfree
Transparent
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Integrations
Count
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus18
Security
Disclosure policy
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Fedramp
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Gdpr
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Hipaa
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Pci
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Scorecard
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus8.1
Reliability
Sla pct
Amazon Timestream99.99
Prometheus
Status page
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Adoption
Dependent repos
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus5,467
Github stars
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus65,837
Package downloads weekly
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus9,036,061
Activity
Commits last 30d
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus100
Release
Cadence days
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus6
History
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus20 items
License
Spdx
Amazon Timestream
PrometheusApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Amazon Timestream
PrometheusGo
Market
Availability
Amazon TimestreamAvailable 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
PrometheusPromQL
SQL compatibility
Amazon TimestreamFull SQL
PrometheusNon-SQL
Ingest
Ingest model
Amazon TimestreamPush
PrometheusBoth
Model
Data model
Amazon TimestreamMetrics (labels/tags)
PrometheusMetrics (labels/tags)
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups
Amazon Timestream-
Prometheus-
Retention / TTL
Amazon Timestream-
Prometheus-
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
Amazon Timestream-
Prometheus-
Performance
High-cardinality handling
Amazon TimestreamStrong
PrometheusStrong
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale
Amazon TimestreamDistributed / sharded
PrometheusDistributed / sharded
Replication / HA
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Deployment
Deployment
Amazon TimestreamManaged
PrometheusSelf-hosted
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible
Amazon Timestream-
Prometheus
Licensing
Licence class
Amazon TimestreamProprietary
PrometheusPermissive 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

Prometheus

Leader

A systems monitoring platform that collects metrics from configured targets at regular intervals, evaluates alert rules using PromQL, and triggers notifications. It uses a dimensional data model with key-value labels for flexible metric analysis and dashboarding.

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 ↗

Prometheus

Leader
Open sourceFree tier
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
Prometheus
macOS
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Windows
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Linux
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
CLI
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
Self-hosted
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus
On-premise
Amazon Timestream
Prometheus

Integrations

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

Amazon Timestream

Not documented yet.

Prometheus

Leader
17 total
  • Amazon SNS
  • Discord
  • incident.io
  • Jira
  • Mattermost
  • Microsoft Teams
  • OpsGenie
  • PagerDuty
  • Pushover
  • Rocket.Chat
  • Slack
  • Telegram
  • VictorOps
  • Webex
  • WeChat
  • Webhook
  • Email
Independently observed

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