What is OpenTSDB?
It is a distributed, scalable time series database to store, index & serve metrics collected from computer systems at a large scale. It can store and serve massive amounts of time series data without losing granularity.
OpenTSDB is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.
OpenTSDB is an open source tool with 5K GitHub stars and 1.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to OpenTSDB's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses OpenTSDB?
Companies
5 companies reportedly use OpenTSDB in their tech stacks, including serverdensity, SAYMON, and Cloudinsight.
Developers
27 developers on StackShare have stated that they use OpenTSDB.
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OpenTSDB's Features
- Store and serve massive amounts of time series data
- Scalable
OpenTSDB Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OpenTSDB?
Prometheus
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given intervals, evaluates rule expressions, displays the results, and can trigger alerts if some condition is observed to be true.
Druid
Druid is a distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store that is commonly used to power exploratory dashboards in multi-tenant environments. Druid excels as a data warehousing solution for fast aggregate queries on petabyte sized data sets. Druid supports a variety of flexible filters, exact calculations, approximate algorithms, and other useful calculations.
KairosDB
KairosDB is a fast distributed scalable time series database written on top of Cassandra.
InfluxDB
InfluxDB is a scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics. It has a built-in HTTP API so you don't have to write any server side code to get up and running.
InfluxDB is designed to be scalable, simple to install and manage, and fast to get data in and out.
Graphite
Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand