Cortex vs LinDB
Cortex
cortexmetrics.io
LinDB
lindb.ioSide by side
| Figure | Cortex | LinDB |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Time-Series Databases | 7.9 (#18) | 8.7 (#5) |
| API | Cortex exposes an HTTP API for pushing and querying time-series data and operating the cluster. | LinDB provides a version 1 HTTP REST API under /api/v1/* for insert, query, and state operations. |
| Support | The project directs users to its CNCF Slack channel, GitHub issues, and the cortex-users mailing list for questions. | The product page links to GitHub channels for feature requests, bug reports, and questions. |
Plans
In their own words
LinDB
LinDB is an open-source distributed time-series database for IoT and IT operations monitoring. It stores and analyzes metrics across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and application layers, using a schema-free model of metrics, tags and fields. LinQL provides SQL-like syntax for queries and cluster or database operations; data can be inserted and queried through an HTTP REST API, client connections and an admin console. Ingestion supports FlatBuffers, Protocol Buffers and InfluxDB protocols, with Go and Java client libraries listed. The system separates computation from storage and identifies ETCD as its only external dependency. It supports replicas, horizontal scaling, operation across multiple IDCs, and automatic minute, hour and day rollups. Deployment documentation covers standalone and cluster modes, with packages for Linux, Windows and macOS and a Docker guide for Linux. LinDB is free under Apache 2.0. Its data scope is limited to numeric time series with accuracy up to the second; it is not suited to text records or finer time precision.