Timescale Blog (Page 6)

Why we introduced telemetry in the latest release of TimescaleDB

10 Sep 2018 4 min read

As of version 0.12, TimescaleDB will come with opt-out, non-personally identifiable telemetry and version checking.

You are what you benchmark: Introducing the Time Series Benchmark Suite (TSBS)

9 Aug 2018 5 min read

Taking the BS out of benchmarking with a new framework released by TimescaleDB engineers to generate time-series datasets and compare read/write performance of various databases.

SQL vs. Flux: Choosing the right query language for time-series data

2 Aug 2018 10 min read

An examination of the strengths and weaknesses of SQL, and why query planners exist, by way of comparing TimescaleDB and InfluxDB.

Uniting SQL and NoSQL for monitoring: Why PostgreSQL is the ultimate data store for Prometheus

12 Jul 2018 9 min read

How to use Prometheus, PostgreSQL + TimescaleDB, and Grafana for storing, analyzing, and visualizing metrics.

Optimizing queries on TimescaleDB hypertables with thousands of partitions

27 Jun 2018 3 min read

How 0.10 introduces 15x improvements in query planning times.

Eye or the Tiger: Benchmarking Cassandra vs. TimescaleDB for time-series data

31 May 2018 14 min read

How a 5 node TimescaleDB cluster outperforms 30 Cassandra nodes, with higher inserts, up to 5800x faster queries, 10% the cost, a more flexible data model, and of course, full SQL.

How to store time-series data in MongoDB, and why that’s a bad idea

15 May 2018 12 min read

20% higher insert performance, up to 1400x faster queries, and simpler queries when using TimescaleDB vs. MongoDB for time-series data.

High availability and scalable reads in PostgreSQL

3 May 2018 15 min read

A detailed primer on scaling PostgreSQL via streaming replication (with performance measurements).

PostgreSQL as the substructure for IoT and the next wave of computing

19 Apr 2018 9 min read

How PostgreSQL accidentally became the ideal platform for IoT applications and services.

Timescale raises $16M from Benchmark, NEA, Two Sigma Ventures for the database to help us understand our machines and our world

24 Jan 2018 12 min read

Humanity is now living with machines and swimming in machine data. Timescale just raised $16M to help developers, businesses, and society make sense of it all.

3,400+ stars, 20+ releases, 30+ talks, and production deployments worldwide: Here’s a recap of Timescale’s first year

8 Jan 2018 3 min read

As we head into the new year, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on 2017 and thank everyone who has helped us along the way. So, to our users, developers, community members (especially those of you active in our Slack channel), investors, partners, and all our other cheerleaders: Thank You.

How to scale PostgreSQL 10 using table inheritance and declarative partitioning

8 Nov 2017 11 min read

PG10 introduces quite a few substantial new features: logical replication, full text search support for JSON / JSONB, cross-column statistics, and better support for parallel queries. Overall, PG10 is a significant milestone in the steady development of a venerable open-source database.