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No. 12 of 36 ·Time-Series Databases

Cortex

Windows · Mac · Linux

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Freedom report

One barScore 5.4

  • Free tierNo free tier on record
  • Open codeNo open-source code on record
  • Runs widely3 of 6 device platforms
  • DocumentedThinly documented

Cortex is ranked #12 of 36 in time-series databases on Freedom251. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows.

Compared on time-series databases

Deployment
self_hosted
SQL support
No
Retention policies
Yes
Horizontal scaling
Yes
Query languages
PromQL
Ingestion methods
Prometheus remote_write; OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP)

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