KairosDB vs RRDtool
| KairosDB | RRDtool | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | No | No |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Open source | No | No |
| Platforms | api, Linux, self-hosted | Windows, Linux |
| Deployment | self_hosted | self_hosted |
| Retention policies | Yes | Yes |
| Horizontal scaling | Yes | — |
| Ingestion methods | REST API, Telnet, Graphite plaintext, Graphite pickle, plugins | command line; standard-input pipes; Perl; Python; Ruby; Lua; Tcl |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
Both are listed in Best Time-Series Databases. On Everything Xiaomi, KairosDB scores higher on our published basis.