A curated list of awesome time series databases, benchmark tools, blog and published papers

• Databases
• Backends
  • HBase
  • Cassandra
  • Elasticsearch
  • Bigtable
  • Ceph
  • Memory
  • HDD
  • SSD
• Reading
• Monitoring

OpenTSDB is a Classical time series database on top of HBase. Now support Cassandra and Bigtable.

• Language: Java
• Backends: HBase, Bigtable, Cassandra

KairosDB is a Fast Time Series Database on Cassandra

• Language: Java
• Backends: Cassandra

Heroic is a Scalable time series database based on Bigtable, Cassandra, and Elasticsearch

• Language: Java
• Backends: Cassandra, HBase, Bigtable, Elasticsearch
• Monitoring at Spotify - Introducing Heroic

BTrDB (Berkeley Tree Database) is a High performance time series database designed to support high density data storage applications.

• Language: Go
• Backends: Ceph
• BTrDB: Optimizing Storage System Design for Timeseries Processing

Vaultaire is a data vault for system metrics, backed onto Ceph

• Language: Haskell
• Backends: Ceph
• Design and compare vaulataire with other time series database

InfluxDB is a Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics https://influxdata.com

• Language: Go
• Backends: HDD, SSD
• Tags: LSM Tree
• InfluxDB Markedly Outperforms OpenTSDB in Time-Series Data & Metrics Benchmark

Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system and time series database featuring pull model, alert, graph etc.

• Language: Go
• Backends: HDD, SSD
• Scaling and Federating Prometheus

Beringei is a A high performance, in memory time series storage engine designed by Facebook

• Language: C++
• Backends: Memory

Atlas is a In-memory dimensional time series database designed at Netflix

• Language: Scala
• Backends: Memory

Khronus is a distributed and reactive time series database designed to store, retrieve, analyze and process a large amount of Disk metrics

• Language: Scala
• Backends: Cassandra

HawkularMetrics is a storage engine for metric data using Cassandra

• Language: Java
• Backends: Cassandra

Blueflood is a distributed system designed to ingest and process time series data built by rackspace

• Language: Java
• Backends: Cassandra, Elasticsearch

Newts is a a time-series data store support searching metadata

• Language: Java
• Backends: Cassandra

Akumuli is a a numeric time series database that can be used to capture, store and process time-series data in real-time.

• Language: C++
• Backends: HDD, SSD
• Tags: LSM Tree
• Akumuli Markedly Outperforms InfluxDB in Time-Series Data & Metrics Benchmark

Databases: OpenTSDB, Heroic

• HBase in Action (Manning Publications) - Chapter 7: HBase by Example: OpenTSDB

Databases: KairosDB, Heroic, OpenTSDB, Khronus, HawkularMetrics, Blueflood, Newts

• Basic Time Series with Cassandra (2012)
• Advanced Time Series with Cassandra (2012)
• Metric Collection and Storage with Cassandra (2012)
• Apache Cassandra for analytics: A performance and storage analysis (2016)

Databases: Heroic, Blueflood

• Timelion: The time series composer for Kibana

Databases: Heroic, OpenTSDB

• Cloud Bigtable Schema Design for Time Series Data

Databases: BTrDB, Vaultaire

Databases: Beringei, Atlas

• Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database

Databases: InfluxDB, Prometheus, Akumuli

Databases: InfluxDB, Prometheus, Akumuli

• In Search of Agile Time Series Database

• Survey on TSDBs that use Cassandra as backend

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• List of Time Series Databases by Preetam Jinka
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