LinDB vs Netflix Atlas
LinDB
lindb.ioNetflix Atlas
netflix.github.ioSide by side
| Figure | LinDB | Netflix Atlas |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Time-Series Databases | 8.7 (#5) | 7.1 (#32) |
| Integrations | The documentation says data ingestion currently supports FlatBuffers, Protocol Buffers, and InfluxDB protocols. | The overview says Netflix wanted common query capability for third-party services such as CloudWatch. |
| Intended use | The maker describes use for IT operations monitoring and IoT, including monitoring metrics across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and application layers. | The documentation describes Atlas as a system for operational insight into what is currently happening within a system. |
| Query language | LinQL provides SQL-like syntax for querying data and performing cluster or database operations. | Atlas uses a URL-friendly stack language for encoding graph expressions and supports query, aggregation, consolidation, math, Boolean, and graph-setting operations. |
| Support | The product page links to GitHub channels for feature requests, bug reports, and questions. | The repository links to a mailing list and GitHub issues for community contact and issue reporting. |
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.
Netflix Atlas
Netflix Atlas has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.