# ClickHouse vs TimescaleDB

**Leader by Vioscale score:** ClickHouse

| Attribute | ClickHouse | TimescaleDB |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 63 (60% (medium)) | 55.2 (51% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 1 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 49,464 | 23,420 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | TimescaleDB is a PostgreSQL extension designed to handle machine data and time-series workloads at scale, enabling operational databases for IoT platforms and physical-world monitoring. |
| features.capabilities | `{"clustering":"distributed","data_model":"both","deployment":"self_hosted","compression":"columnar","ingest_model":"both","licence_class":"permissive_oss","query_language":"SQL","replication_ha":true,"high_cardinality":"strong","sql_compatibility":"full_sql"}` | `{"clustering":"distributed","data_model":"metrics","deployment":"embedded","ingest_model":"both","licence_class":"permissive_oss","query_language":"SQL","sql_compatibility":"full_sql"}` |
| integrations.count | 100 | 7 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Airbyte"},{"name":"Vector"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"}]` | `[{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Iceberg"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Observability tools"},{"name":"Postgres ecosystem"}]` |
| language.primary | C++ | C |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Basic","summary":"$25.30/TB/mo + $0.2181/compute unit/hr","features":["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","Expert support with 1 business day response time","SSO (Google/Microsoft)","Social login","MFA"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"TB"},"kind":"metered","amount":25.3,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"compute_unit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2181,"period":"hour","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Great for testing out new ideas or starter projects. Limited storage and memory.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"memory":"8-12 GiB","storage":"1 TB","backup_retention":"1 day","availability_zones":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Scale","summary":"$25.30/TB/mo + $0.2985/compute unit/hr","features":["Unlimited storage","Configurable memory","Compute-compute separation","Configurable backups","2+ availability zones","Expert support with 1 hour response time, 24x7 for Severity 1 issues","S3 role-based access","Private networking","Automatic vertical scaling","Manual horizontal scaling"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"TB"},"kind":"metered","amount":25.3,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"compute_unit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2985,"period":"hour","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For production environments, data at scale, or professional use cases.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"memory":"Configurable","storage":"Unlimited","backup_retention":"1 day","availability_zones":"2+"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$25.30/TB/mo + $0.3903/compute unit/hr","features":["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","Named Lead Support Engineer","Transparent data encryption / CMEK","Scheduled upgrades","Consultative migration guides","HIPAA compliance","PCI compliance"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"TB"},"kind":"metered","amount":25.3,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"compute_unit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.3903,"period":"hour","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For production environments, very large data at scale, or enterprise use cases.","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Data transfer – public internet egress","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.1152,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Data transfer – inter-region egress","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0312,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"ClickPipes data ingestion","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.04,"period":"ingestion","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"compute_unit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"period":"hour","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $25.30/TB/mo + $0.2181/compute unit/hr. 30-day free trial.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://clickhouse.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-01T15:34:36.304Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"amount":0.2181,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Cloud Basic Support","features":["Email support","General questions","Best practices guidance"],"description":"Support included with all Tiger Cloud trials and subscriptions; email support during business hours (Mon-Fri, 9AM-5PM ET) with 1 business day target response time.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Cloud Production Support","features":["24x7 support for Severity 1-2","1h response for critical issues","Support portal access","On-call assistance"],"description":"24x7 coverage for severe incidents with 1 hour target response for critical database down issues; 4 hour response for high-severity; 1 business day for moderate.","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Open source core; Cloud managed and Enterprise self-hosted options available; contact sales for pricing details","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.tigerdata.com/learn/understanding-rds-pricing-and-costs","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T16:49:36.728Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | - | 13 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 4.9 | 5.8 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.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,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=debian&package_name=timescaledb&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Time-Series Databases)

| Capability | ClickHouse | TimescaleDB |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Query** |  |  |
| Query language (SQL / PromQL / InfluxQL-Flux / Graphite) | SQL | SQL |
| SQL compatibility | Full SQL | Full SQL |
| **Ingest** |  |  |
| Ingest model | Both | Both |
| **Model** |  |  |
| Data model | Both | Metrics (labels/tags) |
| **Lifecycle** |  |  |
| Downsampling / rollups | - | - |
| Retention / TTL | - | - |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Compression (columnar / delta / Gorilla) | columnar | - |
| **Performance** |  |  |
| High-cardinality handling | Strong | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Clustering / horizontal scale | Distributed / sharded | Distributed / sharded |
| Replication / HA | ✓ | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Embedded |
| **Interop** |  |  |
| Prometheus remote-write compatible | - | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Permissive OSS |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:32:09.130Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*