Comparison

ClickHouse vs VictoriaMetrics

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 →VictoriaMetrics full profile →

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★ClickHouse63

VictoriaMetrics46

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	ClickHouseLeader	VictoriaMetrics
Vioscale score	63 / 100medium · 60%	46 / 100medium · 56%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✗
Modelpricing.model	commercial	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	unknown
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	100	10
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	-
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Iso27001security.iso27001	✓	✓
Pcisecurity.pci	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	4.9	6.2
Soc2security.soc2	✓	-
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2FClickHouse%2FClickHouse&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0	Count: 1 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2FVictoriaMetrics%2FVictoriaMetrics&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 1 · Max severity: LOW
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	1	25
Github starsadoption.github_stars	49,464	17,596
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	97
Release
Historyrelease.history	20 items	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	C++	Go
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	Available worldwide · HQ UA

Score

Vioscale score

ClickHouse63 / 100medium · 60%

VictoriaMetrics46 / 100medium · 56%

Pricing

Free tier

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics✗

Model

ClickHousecommercial

VictoriaMetricscommercial

Price level

ClickHouselow

VictoriaMetricsunknown

Transparent

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics✓

Integrations

Count

ClickHouse100

VictoriaMetrics10

Security

Disclosure policy

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics✓

Gdpr

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics–

Hipaa

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics–

Iso27001

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics✓

Pci

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics–

Scorecard

ClickHouse4.9

VictoriaMetrics6.2

Soc2

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics–

Vulnerabilities

ClickHouseCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2FClickHouse%2FClickHouse&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

VictoriaMetricsCount: 1 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2FVictoriaMetrics%2FVictoriaMetrics&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 1 · Max severity: LOW

Reliability

Status page

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

ClickHouse1

VictoriaMetrics25

Github stars

ClickHouse49,464

VictoriaMetrics17,596

Activity

Commits last 30d

ClickHouse100

VictoriaMetrics97

Release

History

ClickHouse20 items

VictoriaMetrics20 items

License

Spdx

ClickHouseApache-2.0

VictoriaMetricsApache-2.0

Language

Primary

ClickHouseC++

VictoriaMetricsGo

Market

Availability

ClickHouseAvailable worldwide

VictoriaMetricsAvailable worldwide · HQ UA

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for time-series databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Time-Series Databases
Capability	ClickHouse	VictoriaMetrics
Query
Query language (SQL / PromQL / InfluxQL-Flux / Graphite)	SQL	MetricsQL (metrics), LogsQL (logs)
SQL compatibility	Full SQL	Non-SQL
Ingest
Ingest model	Both	Both
Model
Data model	Both	Both
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups	-	Continuous aggregates
Retention / TTL	-	-
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)	columnar	-
Performance
High-cardinality handling	Strong	Strong
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale	Distributed / sharded	Distributed / sharded
Replication / HA	✓	-
Deployment
Deployment	Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible	-	✓
Licensing
Licence class	Permissive OSS	Permissive OSS

Query

Query language (SQL / PromQL / InfluxQL-Flux / Graphite)

ClickHouseSQL

VictoriaMetricsMetricsQL (metrics), LogsQL (logs)

SQL compatibility

ClickHouseFull SQL

VictoriaMetricsNon-SQL

Ingest

Ingest model

ClickHouseBoth

VictoriaMetricsBoth

Model

Data model

ClickHouseBoth

VictoriaMetricsBoth

Lifecycle

Downsampling / rollups

ClickHouse-

VictoriaMetricsContinuous aggregates

Retention / TTL

ClickHouse-

VictoriaMetrics-

Storage

Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)

ClickHousecolumnar

VictoriaMetrics-

Performance

High-cardinality handling

ClickHouseStrong

VictoriaMetricsStrong

Scale

Clustering / horizontal scale

ClickHouseDistributed / sharded

VictoriaMetricsDistributed / sharded

Replication / HA

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics-

Deployment

ClickHouseSelf-hosted

VictoriaMetricsSelf-hosted

Interop

Prometheus remote-write compatible

ClickHouse-

VictoriaMetrics✓

Licensing

Licence class

ClickHousePermissive OSS

VictoriaMetricsPermissive 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

VictoriaMetrics

Open source time series database optimized for high-cardinality metrics and logs, with both self-hosted and cloud deployment options.

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 2026-08-01verify ↗

VictoriaMetrics

Hybrid30-day trial

Prepaid yearly credits option with Stripe and AWS Marketplace fallback. One-month free trial.

as of 2026-08-13verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	ClickHouse	VictoriaMetrics
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✗	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
HybridDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics✓

CLI

ClickHouse✗

VictoriaMetrics✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics✓

Self-hosted

ClickHouse✓

VictoriaMetrics✓

Hybrid

ClickHouse✗

VictoriaMetrics✓

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

VictoriaMetrics

10 total

Prometheus
Logstash
Fluentbit
Promtail
Elasticsearch
Loki
Grafana
OpenLIT
S3
GCS

Independently observed

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