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Comparison

ClickHouse vs OpenTSDB

On the evidence we track, ClickHouse leads this comparison with a composite score of 63/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

ClickHouse full profile →OpenTSDB full profile →
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★ClickHouse63
OpenTSDB29
Score
Vioscale score
ClickHouse63 / 100medium · 60%
OpenTSDB29 / 100low · 37%
Pricing
Free tier
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB–
Model
ClickHousecommercial
OpenTSDBopen_source
Price level
ClickHouselow
OpenTSDBfree
Transparent
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB–
Integrations
Count
ClickHouse100
OpenTSDB–
Security
Disclosure policy
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB–
Gdpr
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB–
Hipaa
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB–
Iso27001
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB–
Pci
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB–
Scorecard
ClickHouse4.9
OpenTSDB2.5
Soc2
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
ClickHouse1
OpenTSDB175
Github stars
ClickHouse49,464
OpenTSDB5,065
Package downloads weekly
ClickHouse–
OpenTSDB22
Activity
Commits last 30d
ClickHouse100
OpenTSDB0
Release
Cadence days
ClickHouse–
OpenTSDB77
History
ClickHouse20 items
OpenTSDB20 items
License
Spdx
ClickHouseApache-2.0
OpenTSDBLGPL-2.1
Language
Primary
ClickHouseC++
OpenTSDBJava
Market
Availability
ClickHouseAvailable worldwide
OpenTSDB–

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
OpenTSDB-
SQL compatibility
ClickHouseFull SQL
OpenTSDB-
Ingest
Ingest model
ClickHouseBoth
OpenTSDBPush
Model
Data model
ClickHouseBoth
OpenTSDBMetrics (labels/tags)
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups
ClickHouse-
OpenTSDBContinuous aggregates
Retention / TTL
ClickHouse-
OpenTSDBManual
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
ClickHousecolumnar
OpenTSDB-
Performance
High-cardinality handling
ClickHouseStrong
OpenTSDB-
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale
ClickHouseDistributed / sharded
OpenTSDBDistributed / sharded
Replication / HA
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB-
Deployment
Deployment
ClickHouseSelf-hosted
OpenTSDBSelf-hosted
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible
ClickHouse-
OpenTSDB-
Licensing
Licence class
ClickHousePermissive OSS
OpenTSDBPermissive OSS

What each one is

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

ClickHouse

Leader

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

OpenTSDB

An open-source time series database built on Hadoop and HBase that stores metric data with millisecond precision and scales to millions of writes per second.

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

Leader
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 ↗

OpenTSDB

Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB✗
Self-hosted
ClickHouse✓
OpenTSDB✓
On-premise
ClickHouse✗
OpenTSDB✓

Integrations

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

ClickHouse

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

OpenTSDB

Not documented yet.

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