# Thanos alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 246 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Thanos holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/thanos/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- TimescaleDB: 120
- InfluxDB: 38
- VictoriaMetrics: 22
- PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB: 7
- QuestDB: 7
- InfluxDB 3 Enterprise: 4

## Time series databases

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Thanos.

- TimescaleDB: first choice in 50 of those 84
- InfluxDB: first choice in 17 of those 84
- VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 6 of those 84
- PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB: first choice in 5 of those 84
- PostgreSQL: first choice in 3 of those 84
- QuestDB: first choice in 2 of those 84
- InfluxDB 3 Core: first choice in 1 of those 84
- PostgreSQL plus TimescaleDB: first choice in 1 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Thanos (Thanos is #9 of 10 at 0%).

- TimescaleDB: first choice in 31 of those 81
- InfluxDB: first choice in 11 of those 81
- VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 7 of those 81
- PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB: first choice in 2 of those 81
- Prometheus: first choice in 2 of those 81
- QuestDB: first choice in 2 of those 81
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 81
- TimescaleDB, now marketed as Tiger Cloud / TigerData: first choice in 1 of those 81

**Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Thanos.

- TimescaleDB: first choice in 39 of those 81
- InfluxDB: first choice in 10 of those 81
- VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 9 of those 81
- InfluxDB 3 Enterprise: first choice in 4 of those 81
- QuestDB: first choice in 3 of those 81
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 81
- Amazon Timestream: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Grafana Mimir: first choice in 1 of those 81

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