Axibase Time Series Database
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What is Axibase Time Series Database
Axibase Time Series Database (ATSD) is a time-series database and analytics platform designed to ingest, store, and query high-volume metrics and events. It is commonly used by DevOps and SRE teams for infrastructure, application, and container monitoring, as well as by engineering teams building metric-driven applications. The product includes a built-in query language, alerting, and visualization components, and it integrates with common metric collection agents and protocols. It is typically deployed on-premises or in private cloud environments where teams want a self-managed time-series datastore.
Purpose-built for metrics workloads
ATSD is designed around time-stamped metrics and tags, which aligns well with monitoring and observability data models. This focus supports efficient ingestion and retrieval patterns for operational telemetry compared with general-purpose databases. It also reduces the need to assemble multiple components for basic time-series storage and querying. For teams prioritizing metrics retention and analysis, the product fits common DevOps data flows.
Integrated analytics and alerting
The platform includes built-in querying, dashboards/visualization, and alerting capabilities, enabling end-to-end workflows from ingestion to notification. This can simplify deployments where teams would otherwise integrate separate tools for storage, visualization, and alert evaluation. Having these functions in one product can reduce operational overhead for smaller teams. It also supports faster iteration when building monitoring use cases.
Ecosystem integrations for monitoring
ATSD integrates with common monitoring data sources and collectors (for example, agent-based and protocol-based metric ingestion), which helps teams onboard infrastructure and container telemetry. These integrations support typical DevOps use cases such as host, service, and container metrics collection. The product’s focus on operational telemetry makes it suitable for environments with heterogeneous systems. Integration breadth can reduce custom ingestion development.
Self-managed operational responsibility
ATSD is typically deployed and operated by the customer, which requires capacity planning, upgrades, backups, and monitoring of the database itself. Organizations looking for a fully managed service may find this increases operational burden. High-ingest environments can require careful tuning and infrastructure sizing. This can be a barrier for teams without dedicated platform operations support.
Narrower fit outside telemetry
While strong for metrics and monitoring data, ATSD may be less suitable for broader analytical workloads that require complex relational modeling, multi-modal data types, or advanced data science pipelines. Teams needing deep forecasting, statistical modeling, or domain-specific process analytics may still require additional specialized tools. This can lead to a multi-product architecture for advanced analytics. The product’s strengths are most evident in operational time-series scenarios.
Smaller vendor ecosystem footprint
Compared with larger database and analytics vendors, Axibase has a smaller market presence, which can translate into fewer third-party integrations, community resources, and prebuilt solution accelerators. Buyers may encounter fewer implementation partners and less readily available talent with prior ATSD experience. This can affect time-to-implementation for complex deployments. Due diligence on support options and long-term roadmap alignment is important.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Standalone ATSD | Free ($0) — permanently free | Standalone ATSD is free of charge for download and use, including production deployments (single-node installation). |
| Scale-out / Cluster (Enterprise) | Contact Axibase / Requires support agreement | Scale-out (distributed) deployments require an active commercial support agreement; pricing not published on site — contact Axibase sales. |
| ATSD Sandbox (Docker) — Trial | Temporary license (2-week trial) | Sandbox Docker image ships with a temporary license that can be renewed at the end of a 2-week trial period (used for demos/sandboxing). |
| Finance Edition — Request Trial | Request Trial (contact / form) | Finance Edition page includes a "Request Trial" form — trial available on request; pricing for Finance Edition not published. |
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Axibase Corporation
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