Amazon Timestream vs RRDtool
| Amazon Timestream | RRDtool | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | No | No |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Open source | No | No |
| Platforms | Web | Windows, Linux |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Deployment | cloud | self_hosted |
| SQL support | Yes | — |
| Retention policies | Yes | Yes |
| Horizontal scaling | Yes | — |
| Query languages | SQL, Flux, InfluxQL | — |
| Ingestion methods | AWS SDKs, AWS CLI, WriteRecords API, AWS Lambda, AWS IoT Core, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon MSK, Telegraf | command line; standard-input pipes; Perl; Python; Ruby; Lua; Tcl |
Both are listed in Best Time-Series Databases. On Inferse, Amazon Timestream scores higher on our published basis.