Prometheus comparisons
Prometheus is compared head-to-head with Apache IoTDB, Amazon Timestream and LindormTSDB and more: 7 head-to-heads in Time-Series Databases, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Prometheus head-to-head
- Prometheus vs Apache IoTDB
- Prometheus vs Amazon Timestream
- Prometheus vs LindormTSDB
- Prometheus vs kdb+
- Prometheus vs Grafana Mimir
- Prometheus vs InfluxDB
- Prometheus vs VictoriaMetrics
Prometheus vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Deployment | SQL support | Retention policies | Horizontal scaling | Ingestion methods | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Prometheus | Yes | Free | Self_hosted | No | Yes | No | HTTP pull scraping; Pushgateway; Remote Write; OpenMetrics backfilling | 8.8 |
| 1 | Apache IoTDB | Free | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | INSERT SQL; Java JDBC; Java, C++, Python, and Go native APIs; REST API; MQTT; CSV; TsFile | 9.3 | |
| 2 | Amazon Timestream | No | Cloud | Yes | Yes | Yes | AWS SDKs, AWS CLI, WriteRecords API, AWS Lambda, AWS IoT Core, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon MSK, Telegraf | 9.1 | |
| 3 | LindormTSDB | Cloud | Yes | Yes | Yes | SQL INSERT via JDBC, InfluxDB line protocol, OpenTSDB API, Prometheus remote write | 9.0 | ||
| 4 | kdb+ | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | tickerplant, feed handlers, batch mode, TCP/IP, Apache Kafka, Python, Java, C | 8.9 | ||
| 6 | Grafana Mimir | Free | Self_hosted | No | Yes | Yes | Prometheus remote write; Grafana Agent; Prometheus Agent; OpenTelemetry; Influx; Graphite; Datadog | 8.7 | |
| 7 | InfluxDB | Yes | $0.002/GB usage-based | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | line protocol, HTTP API, client libraries, Telegraf, influxdb3 CLI | 8.6 |
| 8 | VictoriaMetrics | Yes | Both | No | Yes | Yes | Prometheus scraping, Prometheus remote write, Prometheus exposition, InfluxDB line protocol, Graphite plaintext, OpenTSDB, JSON line, CSV, native binary, DataDog, NewRelic, OpenTelemetry, Zabbix Connector | 8.5 |
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