OpenTSDB
A scalable, distributed Time Series Database. (by OpenTSDB)
InfluxDB
Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics (by influxdata)
| OpenTSDB | InfluxDB | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 33 | |
| 5,020 | 29,368 | |
| 0.3% | 1.1% | |
| 5.4 | 9.6 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 22 hours ago | |
| Java | Rust | |
| GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
OpenTSDB
Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenTSDB.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-06.
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Question: What is the Best Way to Store a ~10 Terabytes of Time Series Data?
I like opentsdb. http://opentsdb.net/
InfluxDB
Posts with mentions or reviews of InfluxDB.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-19.
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Development Environment Configuration
Time Series: Greptime, Influx, Loki, Mimir, Prometheus, Tempo, Victoria Metrics
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InfluxDB: Optimize your Data with Data Retention Policies and Continuous Queries
One big caveat: As you see, the tag host is transformed to a number format, not a string. Astonishingly, there is no way in InfluxDB to change the tag values with a select INTO values, as documented in this issue from 2015, or a way to rename tags of existing data as discussed in this issue. The workarounds are to use a client software or to use the Flux language, but both is outside the scope of this article.
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Automatically Generate REST and GraphQL APIs From Your Database
InfluxDB
- Golang REST API boilerplate
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Data for World Map Panel Plugin in Grafana from MySQL
“JOIN is no longer a concept in 0.9. Series sharing a measurement can be queried together simply by omitting the differentiating tags from the WHERE clause.” Link: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/624
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Quant Research of the Week (5th Edition)
Scalable Realtime Datastore: The piece examines a scalable datastore specifically created for metrics events and real-time analytics. (2013-09-26, shares: 26787.0)
- InfluxDB is an open source time series database written in Rust
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InfluxDB CTO: Why We Moved from Go to Rust
How does one upgrade from v2 beta to the latest v2? The docs for doing that seem to no longer exist https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/24393
- InfluxDB 3 is out, OSS commits have been tried up - is this the end?
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InfluxDB dashboard column order
Here is the GitHub issue for sorting/specifying column order: https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/issues/15957
What are some alternatives?
When comparing OpenTSDB and InfluxDB you can also consider the following projects:
Scylla - NoSQL data store using the seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra
VictoriaMetrics - VictoriaMetrics: fast, cost-effective monitoring solution and time series database
Apache Cassandra - Apache Cassandra®
Graphite - A highly scalable real-time graphing system
Apache HBase - Apache HBase
TDengine - High-performance, scalable time-series database designed for Industrial IoT (IIoT) scenarios
Druid - Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.
Squirrel - Fluent SQL generation for golang
prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
RRDtool - RRDtool 1.x - Round Robin Database