Honeycomb is also unapologetically a SaaS. We believe that - unless your company's core competency is, in fact, managing databases and a garden of myriad open-source monitoring tools - it makes sense for most people to outsource their observability solutions.

(We also don't currently support joins, while TimescaleDB's joins sound pretty dope :))

There are a few differences:

- Both Aerospike and Honeycomb.io don't support full sql queries. Instead supporting their own custom (and more limited query format)

- Aerospike is not optimized for time-based queries and is more like a key-value store. You cannot get the same performance

- Honeycomb is a column store. Ours is built on Postgres and can work with your existing Postgres databases

As for performance, we are still working on gathering numbers that we hope to share soon comparing us against other solutions including Influx and similar.