Timescale Blog (Page 17)

Overheard @ Office Hours

5 Jun 2019 2 min read

A selection of FAQs from Timescale Office Hours. During recent sessions we discussed speeding up queries, performance tuning, storing metrics, and more.

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.

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

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 6 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).

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.

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”.

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.