Side by side

TimechoDB vs UnitDB

Both stand on time-series databases. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

TimechoDB

Free trial APILinuxMac+2

TimechoDB offers a broad enterprise feature set for industrial and IoT time-series workloads, including multiple deployment modes, ingestion methods, scaling, monitoring, and security controls. Prospective users must contact Timecho or apply for a trial to obtain the installation package and pricing.

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UnitDB

Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted

UnitDB combines time-series storage, messaging, querying, and client libraries for self-hosted real-time systems. Its roadmap still lists replication and sharding, and secure node traffic requires explicit TLS configuration.

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The facts

	TimechoDB	UnitDB
Free plan	Not published	Yes
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	API, Linux, Mac, Self-hosted, Windows	API, Linux, Self-hosted
Lowest paid plan	Free or on request	Not published
Plans published	1	None
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	timecho-global.com	github.com
On time-series databases	#32 of 36	#28 of 36

TimechoDB: what it does well

SQL query support
Horizontal scaling
Embedded, edge, and cloud deployment
More than 150 acquisition protocols
Free trial available

What to know first

Pricing available only on request
Communication encryption disabled by default
Download requires trial application or contact
Some features have version requirements

UnitDB: what it does well

Open-source Apache-2.0 licensing
Handles time-series data and pub-sub messaging
Supports batch and multiple ingestion methods
Encrypts stored records at rest by default
Official Go and Dart client libraries

What to know first

Distributed replication is future work
Sharding is future work
Inter-node encryption requires mutual TLS
Project is under active development

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