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8 Best Open Source Amazon Timestream Alternatives

A curated collection of the 8 best open source and self-hosted alternatives to Amazon Timestream in 2026.

Looking for a free, privacy-friendly, or self-hosted replacement for Amazon Timestream in 2026? The top open-source alternative is InfluxDB — InfluxDB handles high-velocity, high-resolution time series data at scale, built for telemetry, edge devices, IoT, and physical AI workloads..

Other highly rated open-source Amazon Timestream alternatives include TDengine, TimescaleDb and VictoriaMetrics.

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InfluxDB handles high-velocity, high-resolution time series data at scale, built for telemetry, edge devices, IoT, and physical AI workloads.

InfluxDB preview

InfluxDB handles high-velocity, high-resolution time series data at scale, built for telemetry, edge devices, IoT, and physical AI workloads.

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High-performance time-series database with industrial data management, built-in stream analytics, and AI-driven anomaly detection for operational environments.

TDengine preview

High-performance time-series database with industrial data management, built-in stream analytics, and AI-driven anomaly detection for operational environments.

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PostgreSQL extension for time-series data with automatic partitioning, up to 95% columnar compression, continuous aggregates, and ~200 native SQL functions.

TimescaleDb preview

PostgreSQL extension for time-series data with automatic partitioning, up to 95% columnar compression, continuous aggregates, and ~200 native SQL functions.

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Time series database and monitoring platform compatible with Prometheus, handling billions of metrics with lower resource usage than most alternatives.

VictoriaMetrics preview

Time series database and monitoring platform compatible with Prometheus, handling billions of metrics with lower resource usage than most alternatives.

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Open-source time-series database offering massive ingestion throughput, millisecond queries, and SQL extensions, designed for optimal performance at any hardware scale.

QuestDB preview

Open-source time-series database offering massive ingestion throughput, millisecond queries, and SQL extensions, designed for optimal performance at any hardware scale.

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Apache IoTDB manages industrial IoT time-series data with high-throughput read/write, edge-cloud sync, ultra-high compression, and integrations with Hadoop, Spark, Flink, and Grafana.

Apache IoTDB preview

Apache IoTDB manages industrial IoT time-series data with high-throughput read/write, edge-cloud sync, ultra-high compression, and integrations with Hadoop, Spark, Flink, and Grafana.

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Sub-second SQL queries on fresh streaming data at petabyte scale, built for high-concurrency user-facing apps and AI agent backends.

Apache Pinot preview

Sub-second SQL queries on fresh streaming data at petabyte scale, built for high-concurrency user-facing apps and AI agent backends.

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Distributed SQL database designed for high-speed ingestion and complex queries on massive datasets, ideal for IoT and time-series data.

CrateDB preview

Distributed SQL database designed for high-speed ingestion and complex queries on massive datasets, ideal for IoT and time-series data.

About Amazon Timestream

Fast, scalable time series database service for operational applications that helps you store and analyze time series data.