Joshua Lockerman - Timescale Blog

Promscale: An analytical platform and long-term store for Prometheus, with the combined power of SQL and PromQL

6 Oct 2020 14 min read

We just announced Promscale: a new open-source analytical platform & long-term store for Prometheus, with the combined power of SQL and PromQL. Learn why we built it, how it works, and how to get started right away.

Time-series compression algorithms, explained

22 Apr 2020 13 min read

Delta-delta encoding, Simple-8b, XOR-based compression, and more - these algorithms aren't magic, but combined they can save over 90% of storage costs and speed up queries. Here’s how they work.

Continuous aggregates: faster queries with automatically maintained materialized views

9 May 2019 7 min read

TimescaleDB 1.3 introduces automated continuous aggregates, which can massively speed up workloads that need to process large amounts of data.

What is high cardinality, and how do time-series databases like InfluxDB and TimescaleDB compare?

25 Apr 2019 8 min read

A look into what causes high-cardinality, and how time-series databases handle this problem.