Timescale Blog (Page 5)

Recap: Leveraging TimescaleDB & Microsoft Azure Database for PostgreSQL

23 May 2019 2 min read

Watch the webinar recording to learn more about storing, querying, and analyzing time-series data.

Overheard @ Office Hours

20 May 2019 2 min read

A selection of FAQs from Timescale Office Hours. This week we discussed inserting data with Python, building indexes, and more.

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.

Introducing Outflux: a smart way out of InfluxDB

1 Apr 2019 5 min read

Migrate your workload from InfluxDB to TimescaleDB with just a single command

Timescale & Microsoft Azure team up to power IoT and time-series workloads

18 Mar 2019 3 min read

TimescaleDB on Azure PostgreSQL is a fully-managed, production-ready time-series database service that enables users to scale easily with built-in high-availability

Why you should use a relational database instead of NoSQL for your IoT application

28 Feb 2019 5 min read

IoT data is complex and needs to be accessed by multiple users, so don’t make the mistake of creating data silos.

If PostgreSQL is the fastest growing database, then why is the community so small?

21 Feb 2019 3 min read

The database king continues its reign. For the second year in a row, PostgreSQL is still the fastest growing DBMS, however, its community is not keeping pace.

Timescale raises another $15M for its leading time-series SQL database and introduces an enterprise offering

29 Jan 2019 6 min read

Icon Ventures leads a new round of funding for Timescale to develop the foundational technology for businesses storing, analyzing, and acting on time-series data

TimescaleDB 1.2: Analytical functions, automated data lifecycle management, improved performance, and more

29 Jan 2019 6 min read

Milestone release includes open-source improvements as well as our first community and enterprise features

Mind the gap: Using SQL functions for time-series analysis

24 Jan 2019 6 min read

Write more efficient and readable queries with a new set of time-series analytic tools included in TimescaleDB 1.2

Harmonize your database performance with timescaledb-tune

16 Jan 2019 4 min read

Tuning your TimescaleDB database is essential to leveraging your existing hardware. We built a tool to help you do just that.

A look back at 2018: Here’s what we accomplished in Timescale’s 2nd year

3 Jan 2019 7 min read

Over 1 million downloads, 15 releases including 1.0, production deployments worldwide, the launch of the TSBS, and the release of the Timescale License

How we are building a self-sustaining open-source business in the cloud era

19 Dec 2018 9 min read

Today, we are announcing that we have started developing new open-code (or source-available) features that will be made available under the (also new) Timescale License (TSL). You will be able to follow the development of these features on our GitHub.

TimescaleDB 1.1 performance optimizations and PG11 support (beta)

13 Dec 2018 4 min read

New release includes beta support for PG11, as well as built-in optimizations and open-source tooling to improve performance.

Evaluating high availability solutions for TimescaleDB + PostgreSQL

7 Dec 2018 6 min read

How we evaluated several third-party tools and ultimately selected Patroni as our preferred method.

5 ways open source software companies make money

27 Nov 2018 9 min read

A guide on how to evaluate the long-term sustainability of the business behind any open-source software you are using (or considering working on yourself).

How to use composite indexes to speed up time-series queries

15 Nov 2018 11 min read

Appropriately ordered indexes can speed up queries, sometimes by orders of magnitude.

TimescaleDB 1.0 is production ready

30 Oct 2018 5 min read

Since announcing our first release candidate in September, Timescale’s engineering team has merged over 50 PRs to harden the database, improving stability and ease-of-use.

Grafana & TimescaleDB: Enhancing time-series exploration and visualization

16 Oct 2018 2 min read

The new graphical query editor in Grafana v5.3 for PostgreSQL offers a visual interface and TimescaleDB compatibility.

Open-source and the demise of proprietary software

10 Oct 2018 16 min read

RedHat, Elastic, MongoDB, Github, Pivotal, Greenplum, and more: Open-source software has finally come of age, is reshaping the entire software industry as we know it. Here’s why.

How to manage Prometheus high-availability with PostgreSQL + TimescaleDB

4 Oct 2018 7 min read

In this post, we describe how PostgreSQL + TimescaleDB can help with managing high-availability.

Space exploration and time-series data: Why the European Space Agency uses PostgreSQL

20 Sep 2018 8 min read

Big, small, relational, time-series, & geospatial data — How the European Space Agency uses PostgreSQL & TimescaleDB for the “Digital Library of the Universe”.

Announcing TimescaleDB 1.0: The first enterprise-ready time-series database to support full SQL and scale

12 Sep 2018 9 min read

Over 1M downloads; production deployments at Comcast, Bloomberg, Cray, and more; native Grafana integration; first-class Prometheus support; and dozens of new features signify positive momentum for TimescaleDB and the future of the time-series market.