RRDtool vs VictoriaMetrics
| RRDtool | VictoriaMetrics | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Free trial | No | Yes |
| Paid from | — | $200/mo |
| Open source | No | No |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux | api, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Web, Windows |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | self_hosted | both |
| Retention policies | Yes | Yes |
| Ingestion methods | command line; standard-input pipes; Perl; Python; Ruby; Lua; Tcl | Prometheus scraping, Prometheus remote write, Prometheus exposition, InfluxDB line protocol, Graphite plaintext, OpenTSDB, JSON line, CSV, native binary, DataDog, NewRelic, OpenTelemetry, Zabbix Connector |
| SQL support | — | No |
| Horizontal scaling | — | Yes |
| Query languages | — | MetricsQL, PromQL |
Both are listed in Best Time-Series Databases. On Samsung Mobile US Press, VictoriaMetrics scores higher on our published basis.