vioscale
Comparison

ClickHouse vs InfluxDB

No clear leader: ClickHouse (63.0) and InfluxDB (60.9) 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.

ClickHouse full profile →InfluxDB full profile →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
ClickHouse63
InfluxDB61
Score
Vioscale score
ClickHouse63 / 100medium · 60%updating
InfluxDB61 / 100medium · 70%updating
Pricing
Free tier
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB✓
Model
ClickHousecommercial
InfluxDBcommercial
Price level
ClickHouselow
InfluxDBlow
Transparent
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB✓
Integrations
Count
ClickHouse100
InfluxDB5,000
Security
Disclosure policy
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB✓
Gdpr
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB✓
Hipaa
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB–
Iso27001
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB✓
Pci
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB–
Scorecard
ClickHouse4.9
InfluxDB6.9
Soc2
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
ClickHouse1
InfluxDB–
Github stars
ClickHouse49,464
InfluxDB31,720
Activity
Commits last 30d
ClickHouse100
InfluxDB3
Release
Cadence days
ClickHouse–
InfluxDB19
History
ClickHouse20 items
InfluxDB20 items
License
Spdx
ClickHouseApache-2.0
InfluxDBApache-2.0
Language
Primary
ClickHouseC++
InfluxDBRust
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)
ClickHouseSQL
InfluxDBSQL
SQL compatibility
ClickHouseFull SQL
InfluxDBFull SQL
Ingest
Ingest model
ClickHouseBoth
InfluxDBPush
Model
Data model
ClickHouseBoth
InfluxDBMetrics (labels/tags)
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups
ClickHouse-
InfluxDBRetention policies
Retention / TTL
ClickHouse-
InfluxDBAutomatic
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
ClickHousecolumnar
InfluxDBParquet columnar
Performance
High-cardinality handling
ClickHouseStrong
InfluxDBStrong
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale
ClickHouseDistributed / sharded
InfluxDBDistributed / sharded
Replication / HA
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB✓
Deployment
Deployment
ClickHouseSelf-hosted
InfluxDBSelf-hosted
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible
ClickHouse-
InfluxDB✗
Licensing
Licence class
ClickHousePermissive OSS
InfluxDBPermissive OSS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

ClickHouse

An open-source columnar database system designed to handle large-scale analytical workloads with extremely low latency. Excels at real-time analytics, observability (logs, metrics, traces), data warehousing, and AI/ML applications.

Independently observed

InfluxDB

A purpose-built database engineered to handle continuous, high-velocity time series data at scale. It delivers rapid data ingestion, real-time SQL querying, and seamless scalability across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

ClickHouse

from $0.22/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

From $25.30/TB/mo + $0.2181/compute unit/hr. 30-day free trial.

  • Basic$25.30/TB/mo + $0.2181/compute unit/hr
    • Up to 1 TB storage
    • 8-12 GiB total memory
    • Backups every 24h, retained for 1 day
    • 1 availability zone
    • Export backups to own cloud account
    • +4 more
  • Scale$25.30/TB/mo + $0.2985/compute unit/hr
    • Unlimited storage
    • Configurable memory
    • Compute-compute separation
    • Configurable backups
    • 2+ availability zones
    • +5 more
  • Enterprise$25.30/TB/mo + $0.3903/compute unit/hr
    • Everything in Scale plan
    • SAML SSO
    • Private regions
    • Manual vertical scaling for custom profiles
    • Enterprise support with 30 min response time for Severity 1 issues
    • +6 more
as of verify ↗

InfluxDB

HybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier with $250 credit for 30 days; metered usage-based pricing for Cloud Serverless starting at $0.0025/MB

  • Cloud ServerlessFree
    • Fully managed
    • Elastic
    • Multi-tenant
    • No minimums
    • No long-term commitment
  • Cloud DedicatedContact sales
    • Fully managed
    • Single-tenant
    • Unlimited scale
    • Secure private connections
    • Enhanced support
  • ClusteredContact sales
    • Self-managed
    • On-premise and private cloud
    • Unlimited scale
    • High availability
    • Enterprise-grade security
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB✓
CLI
ClickHouse✗
InfluxDB✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB✓
Self-hosted
ClickHouse✓
InfluxDB✓
On-premise
ClickHouse✗
InfluxDB✓
Hybrid
ClickHouse✗
InfluxDB✓

Integrations

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

ClickHouse

6 total
  • Amazon S3
  • Kafka
  • Airbyte
  • Vector
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
Independently observed

InfluxDB

1 total
  • MailChimp
Independently observed

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