# lindb/lindb

LinDB is a scalable, high performance, high availability distributed time series database.

Repository: https://github.com/lindb/lindb
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lindb
Homepage: https://lindb.io/
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: monitoring, metrics, high-performance, distributed-database, go, database, timeseries, cross-datacenter-native
Last push: 2026-07-27T09:56:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 65/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2639, "days_push": 37, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3066, forks 283 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:41.389609+00:00)

## What it is
LinDB is an open-source distributed time series database written in Go, offering high performance, high availability, and horizontal scalability for storing and analyzing metric data. It features a schema-free multi-dimensional data model, LinQL query language, automatic rollups, multi-IDC support, and a built-in web admin console.

## Use cases
- store and query monitoring metrics at scale
- time series database for IoT sensor data
- self-hosted alternative to InfluxDB for metrics
- multi-datacenter metric storage and aggregation
- high-throughput time series ingestion over a million TPS
- IT infrastructure and application performance monitoring storage

## When to choose
- you need a horizontally scalable cluster for massive metric volumes
- you want multi-active datacenter writes and cross-IDC query aggregation
- you prefer automatic rollups without configuring continuous queries
- you want a simple deployment with minimal external dependencies (only etcd)

## When to avoid
- you need full SQL or rich ecosystem integrations like Grafana plugins out of the box
- your workload is small enough for a simpler single-node TSDB
- you need strong consistency rather than eventual consistency
- you require non-time-series relational or document data

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: database, monitoring, analytics, http-server, cli
- domain: databases, monitoring, iot, big-data
- platform: windows, go, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: time-series-database, distributed-database, metrics-storage, linql, multi-idc, rollup, influxdb-line-protocol, horizontal-scalability, devops, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- lindb/lindb (main) score 65

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.389609+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:28:11.785918+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.