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.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for time-series databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
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.
TDengine
AI-native industrial data platform and high-performance time-series database that unifies data ingestion, storage, analytics, modeling, visualization, and AI applications.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Amazon Timestream
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
TDengine
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
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Amazon Timestream
Not documented yet.
TDengine
- Java
- Python
- Go
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.