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4 self-hosted Timescale alternatives

Managed cloud-hosted PostgreSQL-based time-series database (TimescaleDB) designed for high-ingest metrics and events. Provides compression, retention policies, continuous aggregates, and SQL-based time-series analytics.

Alternatives to Timescale

InfluxDB is an open source time-series database for high-ingest metrics and event data, enabling fast queries for monitoring, dashboards, and real-time analytics.

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31.7k stars3.7k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

PostgreSQL is an advanced open source object-relational database with strong SQL compliance, ACID transactions, extensibility, and robust indexing and replication options.

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21.9k stars5.9k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Apache Druid is a real-time analytics (OLAP) database delivering sub-second queries on streaming and batch data with high concurrency at scale.

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14k stars3.8k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Timescale actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 4 of 4 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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