RRDtool vs TimechoDB

RRDtool

5.8 #32 in Time-Series Databases

About RRDtool

TimechoDB

7.1 #12 in Time-Series Databases

About TimechoDB
RRDtoolTimechoDB
Free planNoNo
Free trialNoYes
Paid from——
Open sourceNoNo
PlatformsWindows, Linuxapi, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, Windows
Free planYes—
Deploymentself_hostedboth
Retention policiesYesYes
Ingestion methodscommand line; standard-input pipes; Perl; Python; Ruby; Lua; TclJava, JDBC, C, C++, C#, Go, Python, Node.js, REST, MQTT, OPC UA, OPC DA, ODBC
SQL support—Yes
Horizontal scaling—Yes
Query languages—SQL

Both are listed in Best Time-Series Databases. On Specifiction, TimechoDB scores higher on our published basis.