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TimescaleDB vs Umami
A side-by-side editorial comparison of TimescaleDB and Umami — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
TimescaleDB vs Umami: at a glance
What is TimescaleDB?
TimescaleDB is paying down correctness debt in its columnstore query paths.
The 2.29 line is in patch mode after 2.29.0 landed chunk exclusion for DML in late July. 2.29.1 carried three security advisories alongside compression fixes, and 2.29.2 is bug fixes only - most of them wrong-results bugs in the columnar execution paths rather than crashes. Every release note in this window recommends upgrading at the next opportunity.
What is Umami?
Umami spent late 2025 patching Next.js CVEs, then shipped Boards and Session Replay in v3.1.0.
The window splits sharply. Four of six releases are December 2025 patches across the v2 and v3 lines, all responding to the same Next.js and React security advisories plus Docker build breakage — several shipped within days of each other because the first fix updated Next.js without the affected React versions. Then v3.1.0 in April 2026 delivered custom dashboards as Boards, Session Replay, Web Vitals performance tracking, a redesigned share page, and a large batch of fixes.
TimescaleDB vs Umami: editorial side-by-side
TimescaleDB
5.0ANALYTICS
TimescaleDB is paying down correctness debt in its columnstore query paths.
◆ Current state
The 2.29 line is in patch mode after 2.29.0 landed chunk exclusion for DML in late July. 2.29.1 carried three security advisories alongside compression fixes, and 2.29.2 is bug fixes only - most of them wrong-results bugs in the columnar execution paths rather than crashes. Every release note in this window recommends upgrading at the next opportunity.
◆ Where it's heading
The feature work of 2.27 and 2.28 - vectorized filter evaluation, first/last derived straight from columnstore batch metadata, sparse indexes, SkipScan on compressed data - has been followed by a steady stream of fixes to those same code paths. 2.29.2 alone repairs SkipScan dropping uncompressed rows, sparse-index pushdown returning wrong results for IS NULL, and gapfill over window aggregates. That is the normal cost of pushing query optimizations into a compressed columnar store, and the project is working through it release by release rather than pausing.
◆ Prediction
With three consecutive patch releases on the 2.29 line and no new highlighted features since 2.29.0, the next minor is likely to resume the columnstore performance work - though the density of wrong-results fixes suggests more patches first.
Umami
0.0ANALYTICS
Umami spent late 2025 patching Next.js CVEs, then shipped Boards and Session Replay in v3.1.0.
◆ Current state
The window splits sharply. Four of six releases are December 2025 patches across the v2 and v3 lines, all responding to the same Next.js and React security advisories plus Docker build breakage — several shipped within days of each other because the first fix updated Next.js without the affected React versions. Then v3.1.0 in April 2026 delivered custom dashboards as Boards, Session Replay, Web Vitals performance tracking, a redesigned share page, and a large batch of fixes.
◆ Where it's heading
The security cluster is a framework dependency showing its cost — an analytics tool inheriting its release schedule from Next.js advisories. v3.1.0 is where product work resumes, and its content is telling: Session Replay and Web Vitals move Umami past pageview counting into behaviour and performance, which is the territory occupied by heavier commercial analytics rather than the lightweight privacy-first tools it grew up alongside.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next releases to build on Boards and Session Replay rather than return to the counting core, since both are new surfaces that arrived with a single release and no follow-up yet.
Alternatives to TimescaleDB and Umami
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either TimescaleDB or Umami.
Omni
Omni ships weekly, and almost every week the headline item is an AI feature.
silx
silx settles into maintenance a release after its PySide6 migration
Plotly
Plotly is turning its cloud into a metered compute platform with an enterprise on-ramp.
aniread
aniread stops asking you to know which tracker wrote the file
Rho
Rho's release machinery finally produced a stable build — and it shipped no new product.
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Recent activity from TimescaleDB and Umami
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoTimescaleDB2.29.2: SkipScan and sparse-index correctness fixes
- 15d agoTimescaleDB2.29.1: security fixes plus compression bugfixes
- 20d agoTimescaleDB2.29.0: chunk exclusion speeds up UPDATE and DELETE
- 1mo agoTimescaleDB2.28.3: columnar pipeline correctness fixes
- 1mo agoTimescaleDB2.28.2: upgrade-path fixes for 2.28.1
- 1mo agoTimescaleDB2.28.1: compressed-table crash and constraint fixes
- 4mo agoUmamiv3.1.0: Boards, Session Replay and Web Vitals ⚡
- 8mo agoUmamiv3.0.3: Next.js security patch
- 8mo agoUmamiv2.20.2: Next.js security patch for the v2 line
- 8mo agoUmamiv2.20.1: React version fix and Docker build repairs
- 8mo agoUmamiv2.20.0: Next.js CVE fix for the v2 line
- 8mo agoUmamiv3.0.2: Next.js RSC vulnerability patch and UI fixes
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between TimescaleDB and Umami?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. TimescaleDB is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is TimescaleDB better than Umami?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. TimescaleDB is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to TimescaleDB?
Top TimescaleDB alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "TimescaleDB alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/timescaledb for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Umami?
Top Umami alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Umami alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/umami for the full list with editorial commentary on each.