Graphite vs OpenTSDB
| Graphite | OpenTSDB | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | No | No |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Open source | No | No |
| Platforms | Web, Linux | Linux, Windows |
| Deployment | self_hosted | self_hosted |
| Retention policies | Yes | No |
| Horizontal scaling | Yes | Yes |
| Query languages | Graphite Render API target expressions | OpenTSDB query syntax |
| Ingestion methods | Plaintext, Pickle, AMQP | Telnet API, HTTP API, batch import, Java library |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| SQL support | — | No |
Both are listed in Best Time-Series Databases. On Inferse, Graphite scores higher on our published basis.