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NameVictoriaMetrics
DescriptionA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.98
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitevictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics
DeveloperVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2018
Current releasev1.121.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no
SQL infoSupport of SQLno
APIs and other access methodsDataDog (write)
go-graphite/carbonapi (read)
Grafana (read)
Graphite (read, write)
InfluxDB (write)
Netdata (write)
NewRelic (write)
OpenTSDB (write)
Prometheus (write)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno
Triggersno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
More information provided by the system vendor
VictoriaMetrics
Specific characteristics
  • High performance, horizontally scalable time series database and monitoring solution

  • Shared nothing architecture

  • Easy to run and operate

  • Both Push and Pull models supported for data ingestion

  • Works perfectly as long-term storage for Prometheus 

  • InfluxDB, Graphite, OpenTSDB, JSON, CSV data ingestion protocols support

  • Backfilling for historical data

  • Support for data migration from other time series databases 

  • PromQL and Graphite query language support

  • Works seamlessly with Grafana

See our docs for all the key features: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Single-server-VictoriaMetrics.html#prominent-features 

Competitive advantages
  • Specifically designed for highly loaded workloads

  • Addresses most of the scalability issues faced by other systems

  • Optimized for metrics processing from Kubernetes and cloud-native environments

  • Resilient to high cardinality and churn rate

  • Efficiently utilizes CPU and reduces memory usage

  • High compression rate allows storing vastly more data on disk

Typical application scenarios
  • When the current monitoring solution can't keep up with increasing workload

  • Kubernetes and cloud-native monitoring 

  • APM (Application Performance Monitoring)

  • IoT sensors, connected cars, industrial telemetry

  • Financial markets data

  • Enterprise monitoring

Key customersSpotify R&D, Hubspot, CERN, Dreamhost, Grammarly, Brandwatch, etc. See our case studies here.
Market metrics14.7 stars and 300+ contributors on GitHub; 1B+ downloads; Thousands of active users; Active Slack community with 4,400 members
Licensing and pricing models

VictoriaMetrics comes in three versions: an open source version, an Enterprise version and a cloud version.

VictoriaMetrics open source is free, of course and anyone can get started here: https://docs.victoriametrics.com/quick-start/ 

VictoriaMetrics Enterprise comes with three levels to choose from depending on user requirements and includes commercial features such as a backup manager, alerting, auth proxy, AI-driven anomaly detection, technical support directly from our core team...and more! 

Contact us for details: https://victoriametrics.com/products/enterprise/

VictoriaMetrics Cloud: Our hosted monitoring platform that provides a managed service for metrics that easily scales to billions of time series while keeping costs predictable. Get more details here: https://victoriametrics.com/products/cloud/​ 

Related products and services

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Recent citations in the news

VictoriaMetrics Efficiently Simplifies Log Complexity with VictoriaLogs
13 November 2025, HPCwire

Prezi's Journey from Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics
11 February 2025, infoq.com

KubeCon24: VictoriaMetrics’ Simpler Alternative to Prometheus
20 March 2024, The New Stack

One to Watch: VictoriaMetrics - The story of a startup from Ukraine
20 March 2023, thestack.technology

Flipkart Scales Prometheus to 80 Million Metrics Using Hierarchical Federation
18 October 2025, infoq.com

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