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TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB: Purpose built differently for time-series data

An in-depth look into how two leading time-series databases stack up in terms of data model, query language, reliability, performance, ecosystem, operational management, and company/community support.

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Achieving the best-of-both worlds: Ensuring up-to-date results with Real-Time Aggregation

Real-time aggregates (released with TimescaleDB 1.7) build on continuous aggregates' ability to increase query speed and optimize storage. Learn what's new, details about how they work, and how to get started.

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Time-series compression algorithms, explained

Delta-delta encoding, Simple-8b, XOR-based compression, and more - these algorithms aren't magic, but combined they can save over 90% of storage costs and speed up queries. Here’s how they work.

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Our Product Team's Reading List: What Moral Psychology, the Rust Belt, and framing can teach us about UX

Like many people, we've been catching up on our book backlog –and we're sharing our recent reads, plus what they've taught us about our work as product managers and engineers.

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CTO Corner: this month in data (April 2020 edition)

Mike Freedman, Timescale CTO, shares some of the most interesting articles and papers about databases and distributed systems he's found in the past month.

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Homegrown monitoring for personal projects: Prometheus, TimescaleDB, and Grafana FTW

Learn how Tyler - one of our newest additions to the team - setup a "roll-your-own monitoring" solution with 10x storage savings – and how you can do the same, be it for your personal projects or a critical piece of business infrastructure.

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Charting the spread of COVID-19 using data

Data gives us insight into the world around us. Using data, we can visualize and prepare for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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How to proactively manage long-term data storage with downsampling

Eliminate the need to store billions of rows with TimescaleDB’s upgraded continuous aggregates

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TimescaleDB 1.6: Data retention policies for continuous aggregates

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

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New: Helm Charts for deploying TimescaleDB on Kubernetes

Quickly & easily add TimescaleDB to your Kubernetes deployment strategy

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Recommendations for setting up your architecture with AWS & TimescaleDB

Learn more about common implementations and find the option that works best for your project, team, or organization

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Optimize your storage costs with TimescaleDB’s data tiering functionality

Gain significant improvements in Total Cost of Ownership by moving historical or infrequently accessed data to more cost effective storage.

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

Significant query performance benefits for both full and partial aggregations.

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Create a data pipeline with TimescaleDB, Kafka, and Confluent

Ingest time-series data into TimescaleDB from upstream sources using Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform.

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How to quickly build dashboards with time-series data

Achieve automated materialized views using TimescaleDB continuous aggregates.

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Analyzing Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 4100+ other cryptocurrencies using PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB

After a Crypto Winter in 2018, cryptocurrencies today are resurging. How can data help us better understand the Crypto Revival?

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Using AWS Lambda with Timescale Cloud for IoT Data

While it's already quite easy to get started with AWS Lambda and TimescaleDB, here are some tips & tricks to help with your integration.

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How to benchmark IoT time-series workloads in a production environment

New IoT dataset available for benchmarking TimescaleDB, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Cassandra & others.

Product & Engineering

Build an application monitoring stack with TimescaleDB, Telegraf & Grafana

Match the flexibility and scale of your application with a stack that works for you.

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Simplified time-series analytics using the time_bucket() function

Turn raw data into fixed time intervals for metric analysis and visualization in Grafana.

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OrderedAppend: An optimization for range partitioning

With this feature, we’ve seen up to 100x performance improvements for certain queries.

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Implementing constraint exclusion for faster query performance

How we leveraged the foundation of PostgreSQL and extended its capabilities to improve performance.

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Storing and visualizing time-series data from a Raspberry Pi

With the recent release of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, you can get faster CPU, 4K support, and up to 4GB of RAM. Coupled with the flexibility of Timescale Cloud, the possibilities are endless!

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Rethinking the Database Materialized View as an Index

By utilizing the properties of time-series data, can we make the maintenance of materialized views efficient enough so they act like indexes?

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Introducing the PostgreSQL & TimescaleDB output plugin for Telegraf

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