10 alternatives to timescaledb

timescale/timescaledb — A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension (23,734 stars, Apache-2.0, database, infra, files).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 594 licence-cleared components from timescale/timescaledb itself.

The alternatives in detail

• duckdb/duckdb
  DuckDB is a high-performance analytical database system
  score 6.4/10 · MIT permissive · 42,334 stars · 3,000 components · search them · alternatives
• dbcli/pgcli
  Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
  score 7.2/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 13,428 stars · 24 components · search them
• electric-sql/pglite
  Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings.
  score 7.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 16,191 stars · 120 components · search them
• neondatabase/neon
  Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.
  score 7.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 23,257 stars · 756 components · search them · alternatives
• smartsdk/ngsi-timeseries-api
  QuantumLeap: a FIWARE Generic Enabler to support the usage of NGSIv2 (and NGSI-LD experimentally) data in time-series databases
  score 5.8/10 · MIT permissive · 41 stars · 83 components · search them
• go-sql-driver/mysql
  Go MySQL Driver is a MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package
  score 8.2/10 · MPL-2.0 weak-copyleft · 15,274 stars · 34 components · search them
• sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy
  The Database Toolkit for Python
  score 7.7/10 · MIT permissive · 12,253 stars · 239 components · search them
• transact-rs/sqlx
  🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
  score 8.2/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 17,596 stars · 344 components · search them
• drizzle-team/drizzle-orm
  ORM
  score 7.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 36,140 stars · 623 components · search them · alternatives
• hoangsonww/sql-mongo-query-converter
  🛠️ SQLMongo - A PyPI package for converting SQL queries to MongoDB queries and vice versa. Effortlessly translate between relational and NoSQL query formats for seamless database interoperability.
  score 2.8/10 · MIT permissive · 26 stars · 11 components · search them

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