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Comparison

ClickHouse vs Prometheus

On the evidence we track, Prometheus leads this comparison with a composite score of 69/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

ClickHouse full profile →Prometheus full profile →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
ClickHouse63
★Prometheus69
Score
Vioscale score
ClickHouse63 / 100medium · 60%updating
Prometheus69 / 100medium · 58%updating
Pricing
Free tier
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus✓
Model
ClickHousecommercial
Prometheusopen_source
Price level
ClickHouselow
Prometheusfree
Transparent
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus✓
Integrations
Count
ClickHouse100
Prometheus18
Security
Disclosure policy
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus–
Gdpr
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus✓
Hipaa
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus–
Iso27001
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus–
Pci
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus–
Scorecard
ClickHouse4.9
Prometheus8.1
Soc2
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus–
Adoption
Dependent repos
ClickHouse1
Prometheus5,467
Github stars
ClickHouse49,464
Prometheus65,837
Package downloads weekly
ClickHouse–
Prometheus9,036,061
Activity
Commits last 30d
ClickHouse100
Prometheus100
Release
Cadence days
ClickHouse–
Prometheus6
History
ClickHouse20 items
Prometheus20 items
License
Spdx
ClickHouseApache-2.0
PrometheusApache-2.0
Language
Primary
ClickHouseC++
PrometheusGo
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
PrometheusPromQL
SQL compatibility
ClickHouseFull SQL
PrometheusNon-SQL
Ingest
Ingest model
ClickHouseBoth
PrometheusBoth
Model
Data model
ClickHouseBoth
PrometheusMetrics (labels/tags)
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups
ClickHouse-
Prometheus-
Retention / TTL
ClickHouse-
Prometheus-
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
ClickHousecolumnar
Prometheus-
Performance
High-cardinality handling
ClickHouseStrong
PrometheusStrong
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale
ClickHouseDistributed / sharded
PrometheusDistributed / sharded
Replication / HA
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus✓
Deployment
Deployment
ClickHouseSelf-hosted
PrometheusSelf-hosted
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible
ClickHouse-
Prometheus✓
Licensing
Licence class
ClickHousePermissive OSS
PrometheusPermissive 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

Prometheus

Leader

A systems monitoring platform that collects metrics from configured targets at regular intervals, evaluates alert rules using PromQL, and triggers notifications. It uses a dimensional data model with key-value labels for flexible metric analysis and dashboarding.

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 ↗

Prometheus

Leader
Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus✓
macOS
ClickHouse✗
Prometheus✓
Windows
ClickHouse✗
Prometheus✓
Linux
ClickHouse✗
Prometheus✓
CLI
ClickHouse✗
Prometheus✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus✗
Self-hosted
ClickHouse✓
Prometheus✓
On-premise
ClickHouse✗
Prometheus✓

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

Prometheus

Leader
17 total
  • Amazon SNS
  • Discord
  • incident.io
  • Jira
  • Mattermost
  • Microsoft Teams
  • OpsGenie
  • PagerDuty
  • Pushover
  • Rocket.Chat
  • Slack
  • Telegram
  • VictorOps
  • Webex
  • WeChat
  • Webhook
  • Email
Independently observed

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