VictoriaMetrics and Grafana Mimir are time series databases with support of mostly the same protocols and APIs. However, they have different architectures and components, which makes the comparison more complicated. In the talk, we'll go through the details of the benchmark where I compared both solutions. We'll see how VictoriaMetrics and Mimir are dealing with identical workloads and how efficient they’re with using the allocated resources. The talk will cover design and architectural details, weak and strong points, trade-offs, and maintenance complexity of both solutions.