LinDB vs Warp 10
LinDB
lindb.io
Warp 10
warp10.ioSide by side
| Figure | LinDB | Warp 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Time-Series Databases | 8.7 (#5) | 8.1 (#16) |
| Deployment | The documentation describes standalone and cluster modes, and deployment as a binary with ETCD as its external dependency. | Warp 10 is available in Standalone, Standalone+, and Distributed versions; the versions differ mainly in how the storage engine is implemented. |
| Integrations | The documentation says data ingestion currently supports FlatBuffers, Protocol Buffers, and InfluxDB protocols. | The platform can fetch data from SQL and NoSQL databases, document stores, other time series databases, and monitoring platforms. |
| Product | LinDB is an open-source, cloud-native, horizontally scalable distributed time-series database. | Warp 10 describes itself as a time series platform for storing and analyzing time series and Geo Time Series data. |
| Security | The introduction lists self-governance and defensive capability against malicious users as features. | Warp 10 uses cryptographic tokens to control access, and its ingress API requires a valid write token in the X-Warp10-Token header. |
| Support | The product page links to GitHub channels for feature requests, bug reports, and questions. | Warp 10 documentation directs users to its community Slack to report issues or missing documentation. |
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.
Warp 10
Warp 10 is a free, open-source platform for collecting, storing, and analyzing time series and Geo Time Series data, including sensor data. It runs as a server that accepts HTTP requests for ingestion and WarpScript execution, and supports API, Linux, macOS, web, Windows, and self-hosted deployments. The platform is available in Standalone, Standalone+, and Distributed versions whose main difference is storage-engine implementation. Standalone uses LevelDB and is described as suitable for a few tens of millions of time series and a few hundreds of billions of datapoints; larger needs are directed to Distributed, which uses FoundationDB. Warp 10 includes more than 1,300 time-series functions. Installation can use binaries on your infrastructure or a Docker image containing Warp 10, WarpStudio, and Sensision. Integrations include Jupyter, Zeppelin, Spark, Flink, MQTT, BACNet, NodeRed, NiFi, SQL and NoSQL sources, Grafana, and PowerBI. Ingestion supports HTTP POST, WebSocket, UDP, MQTT, and Kafka. Cryptographic READ and WRITE tokens control access, and metadata encryption is enabled by default.