ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL
LIVE TELEMETRY
Ingestion Rate
4.2Mrows/sec

sustained · 32 workers

Compression Ratio
94.3%

columnar + delta encoding

Query Latency
2.1msp99

100M series · single-groupby

Max Cardinality
50B+series

unique time series supported

Storage Cost
$0.023/GB/mo

S3-compatible · 90-day retention

Benchmarked against every TSDB that matters. Here's what we found.

TSBS methodology · reproducible · open benchmark scripts on GitHub

Competitive Teardown
TSBS · Feb 2026
TSBS · Ingestion Throughput

Write Speed at Scale

Sustained ingestion, 10K-row batches, 32 worker threads

LIVE
Ingest
4.2M rows/sec
ClickHouse
400K rows/sec
InfluxDB 3.0
220K rows/sec
TimescaleDB
130K rows/sec

Source: TSBS v0.1.0 · 100M rows · AWS r6i.4xlarge · Feb 2026

Ingest 10.5× more data than TimescaleDB. Same hardware.

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p99 · Query Latency

Latency at Cardinality

Single-groupby query · drag to explore scale

Cardinality (unique series)100M series
1M10M100M1B50B
Ingest2.1ms
ClickHouse41.2ms
InfluxDB98.4ms
TimescaleDB312ms

OOM = Out of Memory at this cardinality scale · TSBS groupby benchmark

Storage · Compression

Storage Cost at Retention

1B series · 1 metric per second · real-world compression

DatabaseStorage UsedMonthly CostRelative
Ingest
52 GB$1/mo
InfluxDB
68 GB$3/mo
ClickHouse
172 GB$6/mo
TimescaleDB
2.6 TB$117/mo

Storage pricing: S3-compatible object store · Ingest columnar compression

94.3% compression
$

Save up to 87% on storage vs TimescaleDB at 1-year retention.

Columnar compression + tiered object storage. No vendor lock-in.

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Live Migration · Zero Downtime

InfluxDB → Ingest in 4 Minutes

4.2TB · 12.4B series · production traffic live throughout

ingest-migrate · prod
$ ingest migrate --source influxdb://prod.acme.internal:8086 --target ingest://cluster-1
→ Connecting to source InfluxDB 2.7.4...
✓ Source connected. 847 measurements · 12.4B series · 4.2TB data
→ Analyzing schema...
✓ Schema mapped. 0 incompatible fields detected.
→ Starting live replication (write-forwarding enabled)...
[████████████████████] 100% · 4.2TB · 3m 47s · 0 errors
→ Validating checksums...
✓ Checksum verified. 12,411,847,392 / 12,411,847,392 series matched.
→ Switching DNS cutover...
✓ Traffic rerouted. Zero dropped queries during cutover.
Migration complete in 3m 47s · Downtime: 0ms ✓
DURABILITY

Write-Ahead Log

Durable ingestion buffer absorbs 10× burst spikes without back-pressure. Every write acknowledged in <1ms.

STORAGE

Columnar Core

Apache Arrow-native columnar layout. ZSTD + delta-of-delta encoding. Vectorized query execution with SIMD.

SCALE

Unlimited Cardinality

Disk-backed inverted index. No in-memory cardinality limit. 50B+ unique series without OOM errors.

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See Every Query Type. Every Cardinality. Every Edge Case.

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Pricing

Developer

Free
  • 10M series max cardinality
  • 7-day retention
  • 1 ingestion node
  • Community support
  • TSBS benchmark scripts
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Production

$890/mo
  • Unlimited cardinality
  • 90-day retention included
  • Up to 20 ingestion nodes
  • 4.2M rows/sec guaranteed SLA
  • p99 < 5ms query SLA
  • Priority support (4h SLA)

Enterprise

Custom
  • Unlimited nodes
  • Custom retention policies
  • On-prem or VPC deployment
  • Dedicated migration engineer
  • 99.99% uptime SLA
  • 1h support SLA

All plans include free ingress · Egress charged at $0.09/GB · No query fees