Comparison

Amazon Timestream vs Prometheus

On the evidence we track, Prometheus leads this comparison with a composite score of 67/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Machine formatsMarkdownJSONGraphQLMarkdown is open. JSON and GraphQL need a free key.
Amazon Timestream47
★Prometheus67
Score
vioscaleAI score
Amazon Timestream47 / 100medium · 70%
Prometheus67 / 100medium · 57%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Timestream✓
Prometheus✓
Model
Amazon Timestreamfreemium
Prometheusopen_source
Price level
Amazon Timestreamlow
Prometheusfree
Transparent
Amazon Timestream✗
Prometheus✓
Integrations
Count
Amazon Timestream1
Prometheus60
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–
Prometheus66,366
Package downloads weekly
Amazon Timestream–
Prometheus11,748,542
Activity
Commits last 30d
Amazon Timestream–
Prometheus100
Release
Cadence days
Amazon Timestream–
Prometheus7
History
Amazon Timestream–
Prometheus20 items
License
Spdx
Amazon Timestream–
PrometheusApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Amazon Timestream–
PrometheusGo
Market
Availability
Amazon TimestreamAvailable worldwide
Content
Faq
Amazon Timestream5 items
Prometheus7 items

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 TimestreamContinuous aggregates
Prometheus-
Retention / TTL
Amazon TimestreamAutomatic
Prometheus-
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
Amazon Timestream-
PrometheusXOR2 float chunk encoding
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

A fully managed time-series database engine available in multiple variants optimized for different use cases: one designed for real-time analytics with millisecond query performance, and another based on open-source InfluxDB. Automatically scales to handle millions of data points per second with transparent data lifecycle management across hot and cold storage tiers.

Independently observed

Prometheus

Leader

A pull-based monitoring platform that periodically scrapes metrics from instrumented targets over HTTP and stores them in a time-series database. It provides PromQL for querying metrics and integrates with Alertmanager for rule-based alerting and incident notifications.

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

1 total
  • AWS services
Independently observed

Prometheus

Leader
65 total
  • Amazon SNS
  • Discord
  • incident.io
  • Jira
  • Mattermost
  • Microsoft Teams
  • OpsGenie
  • PagerDuty
  • Pushover
  • Rocket.Chat
  • Slack
  • Telegram
  • VictorOps
  • Webex
  • WeChat
  • Webhook
  • Email
  • WeChat Work
  • Blackbox Exporter
  • Consul
  • Graphite
  • Memcached
  • MySQL
  • Node Exporter
  • +41 more
Independently observed
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