TimescaleDB
TimescaleDB is a PostgreSQL extension that allows for high-performance real-time analysis on time series and event data. It works by editing data in hypertables (hypertables) structure and offering column-based storage (columnstore) support. It can be integrated into the PostgreSQL environment with Docker or direct installation methods.
TimescaleDB
100timescale · Databases & Vector Infrastructure
Common commercial products in this category: Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Aurora
- With continuous sums (continuous aggregates), you refresh summary queries such as hours incrementally in the background and speed up analysis in large data sets.
- Using the hypertable structure, you can identify IoT sensor data and write that data directly to the column-based storage unit.
- You can query analytical data with standard SQL queries via PostgreSQL clients or graphical interface tools.
- • NeutralHacker News
Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
“One possible approach compatible with true software freedom and the usual definition of open source is not to restrict use of modified versions of the code, but instead to use naming to distinguish between the two, and only support the unmodified version. For example, the code…”
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
“We spent about 6 months looking at pretty much every database tech on the market, cockroach, clickhouse, influx, voltdb, memsql etc were top contenders, there was an outdated article on medium.com (by victoria metrics) which slammed TimescaleDB for its disk usage, we did not…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source