Time-Series Insights & Releases from Timescale

Announcements & Releases

TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream: 6000x higher inserts, 5-175x faster queries, 150x-220x cheaper

2 Dec 2020 29 min read

Our benchmark results surprised even us - but even after testing with several configurations, we found Amazon Timestream slow, expensive, and missing key database capabilities like backups, restores, updates, and deletes.

TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream: 6000x higher inserts, 5-175x faster queries, 150x-220x cheaper

TimescaleDB 2.0: A multi-node, petabyte-scale, completely free relational database for time-series

29 Oct 2020 15 min read

After two years of dedicated engineering and user feedback, TimescaleDB 2.0 is finally here, setting a new bar for time-series databases – and it’s completely free.

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.

How we are building a self-sustaining open-source business in the cloud era (version 2)

24 Sep 2020 12 min read

We're excited to announce an update to the Timescale License that provides expanded rights to our users. Learn how (and why) we're making all of our features 100% free and investing in our community – while still building a sustainable open-source business.

A multi-cloud, fully-managed service for time-series data, now available in AWS, Azure, and GCP with 75+ regions and 2,000 configurations

12 Aug 2020 7 min read

Timescale Cloud, the leading cloud service for time-series data, is now even more powerful, offering the most cloud provider and region support, best performance, scale, and developer experience of any managed service for time-series data.

Timescale stands with the Black community

5 Jun 2020 3 min read

Timescale stands with the Black community. Timescale stands against racism and hate.

A multi-node, elastic, petabyte scale, time-series database on Postgres for free (and more ways we are investing in our community)

21 May 2020 5 min read

We’re officially making multi-node TimescaleDB, a petabyte-scale distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL available for free – and investing in our community in other ways as well.

TimescaleDB 1.7: fast continuous aggregates with real-time views, PostgreSQL 12 support, and more Community features

24 Apr 2020 3 min read

We're excited to announce TimescaleDB 1.7, which includes two major updates: PostgreSQL 12 support and Real-time Aggregates, as well as new capabilities in our Community edition 🥳! Get a quick look at what's new and how to get started.

Introducing Write for Timescale

21 Apr 2020 2 min read

We know many developers and members of our community are passionate about using data to build applications, gain insight into their world, and make better decisions. With "Write for Timescale," we want to give you the opportunity to share that passion with others (and get paid for your efforts).

TimescaleDB 1.6: Data retention policies for continuous aggregates

15 Jan 2020 4 min read

New release allows you to save resources and storage space while maintaining continuous aggregates

New: Helm Charts for deploying TimescaleDB on Kubernetes

12 Dec 2019 3 min read

Quickly & easily add TimescaleDB to your Kubernetes deployment strategy

Achieving optimal query performance with a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL

5 Nov 2019 11 min read

Significant query performance benefits for both full and partial aggregations.

Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database

31 Oct 2019 14 min read

How we achieved 91%-96% compression in the latest version of TimescaleDB

Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL

21 Aug 2019 17 min read

Today we are announcing the distributed version of TimescaleDB, which is currently in private beta (public version slated for later this year).

TimescaleDB 1.4 introduces better performance for time-series analytics

18 Jul 2019 2 min read

New release includes several planner improvements and ability to apply multiple continuous aggregates per hypertable.

Announcing Timescale Cloud: The first fully-managed time-series database service that runs on AWS, GCP, and Azure

18 Jun 2019 7 min read

We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Timescale Cloud, the first fully-managed, multi-cloud time-series database service that runs on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Introducing the PostgreSQL & TimescaleDB output plugin for Telegraf

31 May 2019 4 min read

Telegraf handles batching, processing, and aggregating time-series data prior to inserting it into TimescaleDB.

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

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

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.