Comparison

Amazon Timestream vs TDengine

No clear leader: TDengine (55.6) and Amazon Timestream (51.9) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Amazon Timestream52
TDengine56
Score
Vioscale score
Amazon Timestream52 / 100medium · 61%
TDengine56 / 100medium · 69%
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Model
Amazon Timestreamfreemium
TDenginefreemium
Price level
Amazon Timestreamlow
TDenginelow
Transparent
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Integrations
Count
Amazon Timestream
TDengine3
Security
Disclosure policy
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Fedramp
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Gdpr
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Hipaa
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Iso27001
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Pci
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Scorecard
Amazon Timestream
TDengine4
Soc2
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Reliability
Sla pct
Amazon Timestream99.99
TDengine
Status page
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Adoption
Dependent repos
Amazon Timestream
TDengine7
Github stars
Amazon Timestream
TDengine25,090
Activity
Commits last 30d
Amazon Timestream
TDengine100
Release
Cadence days
Amazon Timestream
TDengine28
History
Amazon Timestream
TDengine20 items
License
Spdx
Amazon Timestream
TDengineAGPL-3.0
Language
Primary
Amazon Timestream
TDengineC
Market
Availability
Amazon TimestreamAvailable worldwide
TDengine

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
TDengine-
SQL compatibility
Amazon TimestreamFull SQL
TDengine-
Ingest
Ingest model
Amazon TimestreamPush
TDenginePush
Model
Data model
Amazon TimestreamMetrics (labels/tags)
TDengineMetrics (labels/tags)
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups
Amazon Timestream-
TDengineContinuous aggregates
Retention / TTL
Amazon Timestream-
TDengine-
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
Amazon Timestream-
TDengine-
Performance
High-cardinality handling
Amazon TimestreamStrong
TDengineStrong
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale
Amazon TimestreamDistributed / sharded
TDengineDistributed / sharded
Replication / HA
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Deployment
Deployment
Amazon TimestreamManaged
TDengineSelf-hosted
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible
Amazon Timestream-
TDengine-
Licensing
Licence class
Amazon TimestreamProprietary
TDengineSource-available

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

TDengine

AI-native industrial data platform and high-performance time-series database that unifies data ingestion, storage, analytics, modeling, visualization, and AI 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
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TDengine

HybridFree tier

Free for up to 5,000 tags. Annual licenses from $12,500/year, perpetual from $31,250 (both scale with tag count). Optional support from $3,375/year. High Availability at +30%.

  • Free TierFree
    • Up to 5,000 tags
    • Product usage rights
  • Annual LicenseFrom $12,500/year for 7,500 tags. Standard Support included.
    • Pricing scales from 7,500 to 500,000+ tags
    • Standard Support
    • Software updates
    • Security patches
  • Perpetual LicenseFrom $31,250 for 7,500 tags. One-time payment.
    • Perpetual usage rights
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Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
macOS
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Linux
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
CLI
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Self-hosted
Amazon Timestream
TDengine
Hybrid
Amazon Timestream
TDengine

Integrations

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

Amazon Timestream

Not documented yet.

TDengine

3 total
  • Java
  • Python
  • Go
Independently observed

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