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Comparison

Amazon Timestream vs TimescaleDB

No clear leader: TimescaleDB (55.2) 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.

Amazon Timestream full profile →TimescaleDB full profile →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Amazon Timestream52
TimescaleDB55
Score
Vioscale score
Amazon Timestream52 / 100medium · 61%updating
TimescaleDB55 / 100medium · 51%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Amazon Timestream✓
TimescaleDB✓
Model
Amazon Timestreamfreemium
TimescaleDBcommercial
Price level
Amazon Timestreamlow
TimescaleDBlow
Transparent
Amazon Timestream✗
TimescaleDB✗
Integrations
Count
Amazon Timestream–
TimescaleDB7
Security
Disclosure policy
Amazon Timestream✓
TimescaleDB✓
Fedramp
Amazon Timestream✓
TimescaleDB–
Gdpr
Amazon Timestream✓
TimescaleDB–
Hipaa
Amazon Timestream✓
TimescaleDB✓
Pci
Amazon Timestream✓
TimescaleDB–
Scorecard
Amazon Timestream–
TimescaleDB5.8
Soc2
Amazon Timestream–
TimescaleDB✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Amazon Timestream99.99
TimescaleDB–
Status page
Amazon Timestream✓
TimescaleDB✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Amazon Timestream–
TimescaleDB0
Github stars
Amazon Timestream–
TimescaleDB23,420
Activity
Commits last 30d
Amazon Timestream–
TimescaleDB100
Release
Cadence days
Amazon Timestream–
TimescaleDB13
History
Amazon Timestream–
TimescaleDB20 items
Language
Primary
Amazon Timestream–
TimescaleDBC
Market
Availability

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
TimescaleDBSQL
SQL compatibility
Amazon TimestreamFull SQL
TimescaleDBFull SQL
Ingest
Ingest model
Amazon TimestreamPush
TimescaleDBBoth
Model
Data model
Amazon TimestreamMetrics (labels/tags)
TimescaleDBMetrics (labels/tags)
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups
Amazon Timestream-
TimescaleDB-
Retention / TTL
Amazon Timestream-
TimescaleDB-
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
Amazon Timestream-
TimescaleDB-
Performance
High-cardinality handling
Amazon TimestreamStrong
TimescaleDB-
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale
Amazon TimestreamDistributed / sharded
TimescaleDBDistributed / sharded
Replication / HA
Amazon Timestream✓
TimescaleDB-
Deployment
Deployment
Amazon TimestreamManaged
TimescaleDBEmbedded
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible
Amazon Timestream-
TimescaleDB-
Licensing
Licence class
Amazon TimestreamProprietary
TimescaleDBPermissive 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

TimescaleDB

TimescaleDB is a PostgreSQL extension designed to handle machine data and time-series workloads at scale, enabling operational databases for IoT platforms and physical-world monitoring.

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 ↗

TimescaleDB

HybridFree tier

Open source core; Cloud managed and Enterprise self-hosted options available; contact sales for pricing details

  • Cloud Basic SupportFree
    • Email support
    • General questions
    • Best practices guidance
  • Cloud Production SupportContact sales
    • 24x7 support for Severity 1-2
    • 1h response for critical issues
    • Support portal access
    • On-call assistance
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✓
TimescaleDB✓
CLI
Amazon Timestream✗
TimescaleDB✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amazon Timestream✓
TimescaleDB✓
Self-hosted
Amazon Timestream✗
TimescaleDB✓
On-premise
Amazon Timestream✗
TimescaleDB✓

Integrations

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

Amazon Timestream

Not documented yet.

TimescaleDB

7 total
  • Kafka
  • S3
  • Iceberg
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Observability tools
  • Postgres ecosystem
Independently observed

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