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How Everactive powers a dense sensor network with virtually no power at all
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How Everactive powers a dense sensor network with virtually no power at all

Our friends from Everactive join us to share how they've set up their data stack to bring IoT analytics and real-time monitoring to scenarios and places never before possible. Get their advice, database evaluation criteria, and more 🙌

  • Clayton Yochum
    Clayton Yochum
  • Dan Wright
    Dan Wright
  • Lacey Butler
    Lacey Butler
8 min read
Introducing Tobs: Deploy a full observability suite for Kubernetes in two minutes
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Introducing Tobs: Deploy a full observability suite for Kubernetes in two minutes

Tobs deploys a full open-source observability suite into your Kubernetes cluster with a single command. Learn how and why we built it and start collecting, analyzing, and visualizing all of your metrics in a matter of minutes ⏰ .

  • Vineeth Pothulapati
    Vineeth Pothulapati
  • Matvey Arye
    Matvey Arye
7 min read
How Conserv safeguards history: building an environmental monitoring and preventive conservation IoT platform
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How Conserv safeguards history: building an environmental monitoring and preventive conservation IoT platform

Learn how Conserv powers its environmental monitoring and preventive IoT platform and helps collections care professionals around the world protect historical artifacts 🦸‍♂️

  • Nathan McMinn
    Nathan McMinn
  • Lacey Butler
    Lacey Butler
7 min read
Introducing Prom-migrator: 
A universal, open-source Prometheus data migration tool
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Introducing Prom-migrator: A universal, open-source Prometheus data migration tool

We've built a brand-new, 100% free, open-source tool that makes it easy to migrate your Prometheus metrics data to and from various long-term storage systems. Learn how it works and get started.

  • Harkishen Singh
    Harkishen Singh
10 min read
TimescaleDB 2.0 is now Generally Available
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TimescaleDB 2.0 is now Generally Available

TimescaleDB 2.0 is now generally and immediately available on our hosted services and for download 🔥. This milestone release includes new features and capabilities - including multi-node for petabyte scale, substantial enhancements to continuous aggregates, and more. Learn how to get started.

  • Erik Nordström
    Erik Nordström
10 min read
Timescale Newsletter Roundup: January 2021 Edition
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Timescale Newsletter Roundup: January 2021 Edition

Read about our plans for Timescale Analytics, ways to get up and running with TimescaleDB 2.0, 12 of our favorite resources – and how we've hit a big milestone: 10K GitHub stars ⭐.

  • Lacey Butler
    Lacey Butler
  • Jill Proman
    Jill Proman
6 min read
Time-Series Analytics for PostgreSQL: Introducing the Timescale Analytics Project
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Time-Series Analytics for PostgreSQL: Introducing the Timescale Analytics Project

We're excited to announce Timescale Analytics, a new project focused on combining all of the capabilities SQL needs to perform time-series analytics into one Postgres extension. Learn about our plans, why we're sharing it now, and ways to contribute your feedback and ideas.

  • David Kohn
    David Kohn
  • Joshua Lockerman
    Joshua Lockerman
7 min read
Timescale Newsletter Roundup: December 2020 Edition
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Timescale Newsletter Roundup: December 2020 Edition

Explore exciting Timescale Forge feature drops (TimescaleDB 2.0, DIY multi-node & more 🔥), awesome resources from community members, and tools, tips, and advice for doing more with your time-series data.

  • Lacey Butler
    Lacey Butler
5 min read
12 things you need to know about time-series data
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12 things you need to know about time-series data

From PostgreSQL pro tips and example projects to critical features and database evaluation criteria, we’ve rounded up an all-in-one guide of tips and recommended resources to help you do more with your time-series data 🎉

  • Lacey Butler
    Lacey Butler
10 min read
How to store time-series data in MongoDB, and why that’s a bad idea
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How to store time-series data in MongoDB, and why that’s a bad idea

260% higher insert performance, up to 54x faster queries, and simpler implementation when using TimescaleDB vs. MongoDB for time-series data.

  • Rob Kiefer
    Rob Kiefer
  • Avthar Sewrathan
    Avthar Sewrathan
19 min read
Timescale Newsletter Roundup: November Edition
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Timescale Newsletter Roundup: November Edition

Get a breakdown of what's new from Team Timescale, from the much-anticipated TimescaleDB 2.0 release to tips and tools for wrangling time-series data, speeding up database performance, and beyond 🚀.

  • Lacey Butler
    Lacey Butler
6 min read
TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream: 6000x higher inserts, 5-175x faster queries, 150x-220x cheaper
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TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream: 6000x higher inserts, 5-175x faster queries, 150x-220x cheaper

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.

  • Ryan Booz
    Ryan Booz
29 min read
What the heck is time-series data (and why do I need a time-series database)?
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What the heck is time-series data (and why do I need a time-series database)?

This article is a primer on time-series data and why you may not want to use a “normal” database to store it. ✅ Get the basics, key database considerations, and more.

  • Ajay Kulkarni
    Ajay Kulkarni
  • Ryan Booz
    Ryan Booz
15 min read
Timescale Newsletter Roundup: October Edition
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Timescale Newsletter Roundup: October Edition

Get a cornucopia of resources to help you do more with your time-series data - with a special focus on all things open source ✨.

  • Lacey Butler
    Lacey Butler
7 min read
TimescaleDB 2.0: A multi-node, petabyte-scale, completely free relational database for time-series
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TimescaleDB 2.0: A multi-node, petabyte-scale, completely free relational database for time-series

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.

  • Ajay Kulkarni
    Ajay Kulkarni
  • Mike Freedman
    Mike Freedman
15 min read
Promscale: An analytical platform and long-term store for Prometheus, with the combined power of SQL and PromQL
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Promscale: An analytical platform and long-term store for Prometheus, with the combined power of SQL and PromQL

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.

  • Matvey Arye
    Matvey Arye
  • Joshua Lockerman
    Joshua Lockerman
  • Harkishen Singh
    Harkishen Singh
14 min read
How FlightAware fuels flight prediction models for global travelers with TimescaleDB and Grafana
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How FlightAware fuels flight prediction models for global travelers with TimescaleDB and Grafana

Learn how FlightAware architected a monitoring system - combining TimescaleDB, Grafana, and Docker - that allows them to power real-time flight predictions, analyze prediction performance, and continuously improve their models.

  • Caroline Rodewig
    Caroline Rodewig
  • Lacey Butler
    Lacey Butler
10 min read
Timescale Newsletter Roundup: September 2020 Edition
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Timescale Newsletter Roundup: September 2020 Edition

See what's new from Team Timescale, including big news about our Timescale License - updated to give more rights to our users, enterprise features 100% free, and more! - TimescaleDB 2.0 beta releases, new technical content, and PostgreSQL pro tips 🚀.

  • Lacey Butler
    Lacey Butler
6 min read
How we are building a self-sustaining open-source business in the cloud era (version 2)
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How we are building a self-sustaining open-source business in the cloud era (version 2)

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.

  • Ajay Kulkarni
    Ajay Kulkarni
  • Mike Freedman
    Mike Freedman
12 min read
Top 5 PostgreSQL Extensions
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Top 5 PostgreSQL Extensions

At Timescale, we’re big fans of PostgreSQL. We asked our team and community to recommend their favorite PostgreSQL extensions. Here’s what they said...

  • Avthar Sewrathan
    Avthar Sewrathan
8 min read
Timescale Newsletter Roundup: August Edition
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Timescale Newsletter Roundup: August Edition

Get a digest of what's new from Team Timescale, including 3 (!) exciting product updates, community member shoutouts, and tons of how-to content to help you on your journey to PostgreSQL and time-series mastery 🎉

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

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.

  • Ajay Kulkarni
    Ajay Kulkarni
7 min read
Speed up Grafana by auto-switching between different aggregations, using PostgreSQL
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Speed up Grafana by auto-switching between different aggregations, using PostgreSQL

Learn how (and why) to use PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB to speed up your Grafana drill downs: step-by-step guide to enable "auto-switching" between aggregations, depending on the time interval.

  • Avthar Sewrathan
    Avthar Sewrathan
7 min read
How I power a (successful) crypto trading bot with TimescaleDB
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How I power a (successful) crypto trading bot with TimescaleDB

Learn how Felipe Queis uses TimescaleDB to power his crypto trading bot – and how his side project influenced his team’s decision to adopt TimescaleDB for their work *and* resulted in several successful crypto trades.

  • Lacey Butler
    Lacey Butler
  • Felipe Queis
    Felipe Queis
8 min read
How to visualize timeshifts to compare metrics over time in Grafana using PostgreSQL
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How to visualize timeshifts to compare metrics over time in Grafana using PostgreSQL

Learn how (and why) to combine PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, and Grafana to visualize timeshifts and compare how your time-series metrics change over time.

  • Avthar Sewrathan
    Avthar Sewrathan
8 min read
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