Graphite vs QuestDB

Graphite

5.3 #22 in Time-Series Databases

About Graphite

QuestDB

6.3 #46 in Database Software

About QuestDB
GraphiteQuestDB
Free planNoYes
Free trialNoYes
Paid from—Free
Open sourceNoNo
PlatformsWeb, Linuxapi, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Web, Windows
Deploymentself_hostedboth
Retention policiesYesYes
Horizontal scalingYesYes
Query languagesGraphite Render API target expressionsQuestDB SQL, PostgreSQL wire protocol, REST API, Apache Parquet
Ingestion methodsPlaintext, Pickle, AMQPQuestDB Wire Protocol, InfluxDB Line Protocol, REST API, native client libraries, SQL INSERT, Kafka connector, CSV import
Free plan—Yes
SQL support—Yes

Both are listed in Best Time-Series Databases. On Samsung Mobile US Press, QuestDB scores higher on our published basis.