VictoriaLogs vs Loki

Same workload, same hardware, seven days of logs. What changes when a stream-indexed store gives way to a columnar one.

Steady-state headline

5×lighter

memory at steady state — the metric that gates how many tenants share a node.

Metric

Loki

VictoriaLogs

Delta

Storage

501GB

318GB

37%

smaller

Memory

6.5GB

1.3GB

5×

lighter

CPU peak

4.0vCPU

1.1vCPU

73%

lower

3× peak ingestion · 66 vs 20 MB/s 12× faster needle search 94% lower query latency · headline