Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to QuestDB
Fastest open source database for time-series and analytics
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. QuestDB launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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QuestDB is the open-source time-series database for demanding workloads: ultra-low latency, high throughput, tiered storage, and fast SQL on open formats.
2019 · questdb.io · its alternatives →
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QuestDB live demo. Query three large datasets and more than 2 billion rows in milliseconds with SQL
2020 · try.questdb.io · its alternatives →
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SereneDBfree▲262Ultra-Fast Search & Analytics Database, Agentic AI ready
Sep 2026 · serenedb.com · its alternatives →
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GreptimeDB▲72Open-source database for large-scale time-series data
2022 · greptime.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · play.questdb.io · its alternatives →
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Metabase▲313Open source business intelligence - Installs in 5 minutes
2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
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Metabase grounds every answer in your semantic layer — your metrics and business logic — so you can inspect the query behind it.
2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
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Query OpenAI’s GPT-3 from directly inside your database
2023 · mindshub.ai · its alternatives →
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I created a web page to compare different analytical databases (both self-managed and services, open-source and proprietary) on a realistic dataset. It contains 20+ databases, each with installation and data loading scripts. And they can be compared to each other on a set of 43 queries, by data load time or by storage size. There are switches to select different types of databases for comparison - for example, only MySQL compatible or PostgreSQL compatible. If you play with the switches, many interesting details will be uncovered. Full description:…
2022 · benchmark.clickhouse.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · easydb.io · its alternatives →
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hi hn, hydra ceo here hydra is an open source, column-oriented postgres. you can set up remarkably fast aggregates on your project in minutes to query billions of rows instantly. postgres is great, but aggregates can take minutes to hours to return results on large data sets. long-running analytical queries hog database resources and degrade performance. use hydra to run much faster analytics on postgres without making code changes. data is automatically loaded into columnar format and compressed. connect to hydra with your preferred postgres client (psql, dbeaver, etc). following 4 months…
2023 · hydra-so.notion.site · its alternatives →
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One year ago I open-sourced my very first 'real' project and shared it here. I was a college student in my senior year and desperately looking for a job. At the time of sharing it i couldn't even afford a domain and naively let someone buy the one i had my eyes on lol. It's been a hell of a year with this blowing up, me moving to another country, and switching 2 jobs. In a year we somehow managed to hit 26k stars, grow a 1000+ person discord community, and support 37 languages. I couldn't be more grateful for the community that helped this grow, but now i don't know what direction to take…
2025 · drawdb.app · its alternatives →
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All your analytics in a Redshift or Postgres DW in minutes
2015 · twilio.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · mprove.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community, I’m Nick, co-founder/CEO of Transform.co. I’m thrilled to share MetricFlow, an open-source metric creation framework: https://github.com/transform-data/metricflow MetricFlow strives to make what has historically been an extremely repetitive process, writing SQL queries on core normalized data models, much more DRY. MetricFlow consolidates the definitions for joins, aggregations, filters, etc., and programmatically generates SQL to construct data marts. You can think of it like LookML, but more powerful and ergonomic (and open source!). The project…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We're Evgeny and Arjun, and we’re building a better way to do analytics with Postgres. We love Postgres for its simplicity, power, and rich ecosystem. But engineers have to still get bogged down with heavyweight and expensive OLAP systems when connecting an analytics data stack. Postgres is amazing at OLTP queries, but not for OLAP queries (large data scans and aggregations). Even in this case, we’ve still heard from countless scaling startups that they still try to use only a read replica to run analytics workloads since they don’t want to deal with the data engineering complexity of…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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On-demand virtual warehouse to run ad hoc queries in 30 secs
2024 · datazip.io · its alternatives →
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2020 · terminusdb.com · its alternatives →
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An open source time-series SQL database powered by Postgres!
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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DatabaseLog▲88MongoDB Analytics to track your site performance
2020 · databaselog.com · its alternatives →
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