Is Timescale or Ninox better?

Neither clearly leads. Timescale starts at $30/month and Ninox at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Timescale or Ninox?

Timescale starts at $30/month and Ninox at On request.

Does Timescale or Ninox run on more platforms?

Timescale runs on web, api. Ninox runs on Web.

What is Timescale best used for?

Timescale is most often used for iot and sensor data storage, operational and infrastructure metrics, time-series analytics dashboards, financial and market tick data. Of those, iot and sensor data storage and operational and infrastructure metrics are not what Ninox is typically brought in for.

What can Timescale do that Ninox cannot?

Timescale covers Hypertables, Native compression, Continuous aggregates, Point-in-time recovery.

Software · head to head

Timescale vs Ninox

Timescale

Software

PostgreSQL platform for time-series and analytical workloads

From: $30/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

Ninox

Software

The database for teams

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Timescale it is built on Postgres, so it inherits Postgres's vertical-scaling limits compared to purpose-built distributed time-series systems.; Ninox paid plans are priced per user starting around 25 euros per month, and offline desktop and mobile access is limited to the higher Business and Enterprise tiers

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Timescale and Ninox actually diverge.

Attributes where Timescale and Ninox differ
Attribute	Timescale	Ninox
Starting price	$30/month	On request
Platforms	web, api	Web

Identical on both: pricing model (subscription), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Unknown).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Timescale

Hypertables
Native compression
Continuous aggregates
Point-in-time recovery
Read replicas
Private networking

Only in Ninox

Nothing recorded that Timescale does not also cover.

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Timescale

IoT and sensor data storagenot Ninox
Operational and infrastructure metricsnot Ninox
Time-series analytics dashboardsnot Ninox
Financial and market tick datanot Ninox

Ninox

No use cases recorded yet. See the Ninox review.

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Timescale

It is built on Postgres, so it inherits Postgres's vertical-scaling limits compared to purpose-built distributed time-series systems.
The free trial is time-limited (30 days) rather than a permanent free tier.
Enterprise features like HIPAA compliance and cross-region backups require custom-priced Enterprise plans, not available on entry tiers.
Multi-node horizontal scaling and read replicas are gated behind the higher-priced Scale plan.

Ninox

Paid plans are priced per user starting around 25 euros per month, and offline desktop and mobile access is limited to the higher Business and Enterprise tiers

Pricing, plan by plan

Timescale

$30/month

Performance$30/month
- 4 database services
- Up to 8 CPU / 32GB memory per service
- Up to 16TB disk per service
Scale$36/month
- Unlimited database services
- Up to 32 CPU / 128GB memory per service
- Up to 64TB disk per service
Enterprise$undefined/month
- Up to 64 CPU / 256GB memory per service
- Cross-region backups
- SAML SSO, HIPAA compliance

Ninox

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Ninox review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Timescale if

You need hypertables.
You work on web, api.
You also want native compression.

Timescale review

Choose Ninox if

Nothing in the data separates Ninox from Timescale on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.

Ninox review

Questions people ask

Is Timescale or Ninox better?: Neither clearly leads. Timescale starts at $30/month and Ninox at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Timescale or Ninox?: Timescale starts at $30/month and Ninox at On request.
Does Timescale or Ninox run on more platforms?: Timescale runs on web, api. Ninox runs on Web.
What is Timescale best used for?: Timescale is most often used for iot and sensor data storage, operational and infrastructure metrics, time-series analytics dashboards, financial and market tick data. Of those, iot and sensor data storage and operational and infrastructure metrics are not what Ninox is typically brought in for.
What can Timescale do that Ninox cannot?: Timescale covers Hypertables, Native compression, Continuous aggregates, Point-in-time recovery.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Timescale: What does Timescale (Tiger Data) cost?

Tiger Cloud starts at $30/month for the Performance plan (4 database services, up to 8 CPU/32GB RAM), $36/month for Scale (unlimited services, multi-node HA), and custom Enterprise pricing for larger deployments.

Source

Timescale: Is there a free trial and what does it include?

New users get a 30-day trial of the Performance plan with no credit card required, letting them test hypertables, compression and continuous aggregates before paying.

Source

Timescale: How is usage billed?

Billing is monthly in arrears with hourly-metered compute and storage based on average GB consumed per hour; mid-month plan changes are pro-rated and customers can cancel anytime.

Source

Timescale vs Ninox

Timescale

Ninox

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Timescale

Only in Ninox

What people use each for

Timescale

Ninox

Where each one falls short

Timescale

Ninox

Pricing, plan by plan

Timescale

Ninox

Which should you pick?

Choose Timescale if

Choose Ninox if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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