KairosDB vs M3
| KairosDB | M3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | No | No |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Open source | No | No |
| Platforms | api, Linux, self-hosted | — |
| Deployment | self_hosted | self_hosted |
| Retention policies | Yes | Yes |
| Horizontal scaling | Yes | Yes |
| Ingestion methods | REST API, Telnet, Graphite plaintext, Graphite pickle, plugins | Prometheus remote write, StatsD, Carbon plaintext, InfluxDB line protocol, JSON |
| Query languages | — | PromQL, Graphite, M3QL |
Both are listed in Best Time-Series Databases. On Everything Xiaomi, KairosDB scores higher on our published basis.