Comparison

M3DB vs OpenTSDB

On the evidence we track, M3DB leads this comparison with a composite score of 51/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★M3DB51
OpenTSDB35
Score
vioscaleAI score
M3DB51 / 100medium · 51%
OpenTSDB35 / 100low · 44%
Pricing
Free tier
M3DB✓
OpenTSDB✓
Model
Price level
M3DBfree
OpenTSDBfree
Transparent
M3DB✓
OpenTSDB–
Integrations
Count
M3DB4
OpenTSDB3
Reliability
Status page
M3DB–
OpenTSDB✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
M3DB10
OpenTSDB175
Github stars
M3DB4,905
OpenTSDB5,064
Package downloads weekly
M3DB–
OpenTSDB30
Activity
Commits last 30d
M3DB50
OpenTSDB0
Release
Cadence days
M3DB12
OpenTSDB77
History
OpenTSDB20 items
License
Spdx
OpenTSDBLGPL-2.1
Language
Primary
M3DBGo
OpenTSDBJava
Market
Availability
OpenTSDB–
Content
Faq
OpenTSDB5 items

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)
M3DBPromQL, Graphite
OpenTSDB-
SQL compatibility
M3DBNon-SQL
OpenTSDB-
Ingest
Ingest model
M3DBPush
OpenTSDBPush
Model
Data model
M3DBMetrics (labels/tags)
OpenTSDBMetrics (labels/tags)
Lifecycle
Downsampling / rollups
M3DBRetention policies
OpenTSDBContinuous aggregates
Retention / TTL
M3DBAutomatic
OpenTSDBManual
Storage
Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla)
M3DBcolumnar
OpenTSDB-
Performance
High-cardinality handling
M3DBStrong
OpenTSDB-
Scale
Clustering / horizontal scale
M3DBDistributed / sharded
OpenTSDBDistributed / sharded
Replication / HA
M3DB✓
OpenTSDB-
Deployment
Deployment
M3DBSelf-hosted
OpenTSDBSelf-hosted
Interop
Prometheus remote-write compatible
M3DB✓
OpenTSDB-
Licensing
Licence class
M3DBPermissive OSS
OpenTSDBPermissive OSS

What each one is

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

M3DB

Leader

M3 is a distributed time series database built for storing and querying high-volume metrics with multiple query languages. It can be deployed as a single node or multi-node cluster using Docker, Kubernetes, or binaries.

Independently observed

OpenTSDB

An open-source system for ingesting, storing, and analyzing operational metrics from infrastructure and applications. Designed to handle thousands of measurement streams from numerous hosts and services, it enables rapid data collection and subsequent querying of metric data.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

M3DB

Leader
Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

OpenTSDB

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
M3DB✗
OpenTSDB✓
macOS
M3DB✓
OpenTSDB✗
Windows
M3DB✓
OpenTSDB✗
Linux
M3DB✓
OpenTSDB✗
CLI
M3DB✓
OpenTSDB✗
Deployment
Self-hosted
M3DB✓
OpenTSDB✓

Integrations

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

M3DB

Leader
6 total
  • Prometheus
  • Graphite
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • InfluxDB
  • etcd
Independently observed

OpenTSDB

3 total
  • Nagios
  • Icinga
  • Gnuplot
Independently observed
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