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Tiger Data Blog
Company blog · timescale.com/blogdataprogrammingsystems
Tiger Data Blog is the company blog at timescale.com, writing about data, programming and systems. Since 2017, 138 different Hacker News readers have linked it 328 times, most often “TimescaleDB – relational database for time-series data, based on PostgreSQL”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Commenters mostly link timescale.com for TimescaleDB product pages and job listings; the blog's posts on PostgreSQL, time-series and pgvector are cited only as supporting evidence.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- Described as easier to grok than the linked time-series database article, for readers new to the topic.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
From the creators of TimescaleDB — the PostgreSQL platform trusted by enterprises processing trillions of metrics daily. Start a free trial or get a demo.
Most-linked posts?
- TimescaleDB – relational database for time-series data, based on PostgreSQL22 people · 24 mentions · first linked 2017-11-30
- What Is ClickHouse and How Does It Compare to TimescaleDB for Time Series?7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-02-22
- /careers6 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2019-08-02
- /6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-07-20
- Time-Series Compression Algorithms5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-05-14
- /cloud5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-06-18
- /legal/licenses4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-05-22
- How We Made PostgreSQL as Fast as Pinecone for Vector Data3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-06-11
- Why PostgreSQL Is the Bedrock for the Future of Data3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-04-24
- /blog/building-open-source-business-in-cloud-era-v2/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-06-16
What Hacker News says?
Have you seen TimescaleDB? https://www.timescale.com/
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on “Medium-hard SQL interview questions”Submitted Vector databases are the wrong abstraction as a story · 493 points
HN discussionHoly wow! Thanks for the response! Yep, I love the fact that y'all went the extension route much like https://www.timescale.com/ and others.
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on “Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)”Submitted Timescale, an open-source time-series SQL database for PostgreSQL as a story · 358 points
HN discussionTimescale | New York, NY | Stockholm, Sweden | ONSITE | FULL-TIME Time-series data is everywhere, and the powerful time-series database we are developing (TimescaleDB) is a key building block across a range of industries: IoT, DevOps, monitoring, eventing, finance, industrial, logistics, transportation, and via the edge, on premise, and cloud deployments. It powers users' core products. We need extraordinary enginee…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Timescale raises $110M Series C as a story · 228 points
HN discussionHi @willvarfar: Just to avoid any confusion, TimescaleDB's compression is available in our community edition, which is fully free to use. Once you specify some compression configs, it's automated and transparent. https://www.timescale.com/products/features https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/compress... (The "community" edition is available under our Timescale License. It's all source available and f…
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on “PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database”Submitted Time-Series Compression Algorithms as a story · 190 points
HN discussion[Timescale co-founder here] Hi Eric, thanks for taking a close look at our license. I'd like to dispel some misconceptions: The core of TimescaleDB is Apache2. Advanced features are under the Timescale License. Regarding this: the customer is prohibited, either contractually or technically, from defining, redefining, or modifying the database schema or other structural aspects of database objects, such as through us…
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on “ClickHouse, Inc.”Submitted PostgreSQL views and materialized views and how they influenced TimescaleDB as a story · 181 points
HN discussionPost co-author here. Really appreciate the feedback. Your point about HNSW being resource intensive is one we've heard. Our team actually built another extension called pgvectorscale [1] which helps scale vector search on Postgres with a new index type (StreamingDiskANN). It has BQ out the box and can also store vectors on disk vs only in memory. Another practice I've seen work well is for teams use to use a read re…
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on “Vector databases are the wrong abstraction”Submitted OpenTelemetry Traces and PostgreSQL as a story · 158 points
HN discussion(post co-author here) It could do either depending on on what the planner decides. In pgvector it usually does post-filtering in practice (filter after vector search). pgvector HNSW has the problem that there is a cutoff of retrieving some constant C results and if none of them match the filter than it won't find results. I believe newer version of pgvector address that. Also pgvectorscale's StreamingDiskANN[1] does…
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on “Vector databases are the wrong abstraction”Submitted Using Postgres for Everything as a story · 155 points
HN discussion(post co-author here) We agree a lot of stuff still needs to be figured out. Which is why we made vectorizer very configurable. You can configure chunking strategies, formatting (which is a way to add context back into chunks). You can mix semantic and lexical search on the results. That handles your 1,2,3. Versioning can mean a different version of the data (in which case the versioning info lives with the source d…
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on “Vector databases are the wrong abstraction”Submitted How we made data aggregation on PostgreSQL better and faster as a story · 146 points
HN discussionTimescale [ Global | 100% Remote | Multiple Roles: Eng, Product + more ] Timescale is continuing to grow rapidly, and we’re hiring for many roles involving distributed systems and databases. Timescale extends PostgreSQL to handle relational data, time-series, events, real-time analytics, and vector search in a single application database. It’s built for data-heavy, mission-critical apps while retaining the familiari…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted Bottomless, consumption-based storage for PostgreSQL built on Amazon S3 as a story · 134 points
HN discussionDefinitely excited as well! Curious how we buy support? Looking at https://www.timescale.com/support there doesn't seem to be any support plan for on-prem TimescaleDB.
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on “Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free”Submitted Pgvector Is Now Faster Than Pinecone at 75% Less Cost as a story · 127 points
HN discussionHi JeremyNT: We've never "changed" any Apache-2 licensed code to TSL-licensed code. And in fact, we've recently basically eliminated most of our enterprise features (read: paid only) and converted them to community features (read: free under the TSL). So I'm curious: Why do you use only the Apache-2 version of TimescaleDB rather than the Community version? https://www.timescale.com/products/features (I realize that…
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on “Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free”Submitted Custom SQL functions for data analytics in PostgreSQL as a story · 120 points
HN discussionA couple examples from Timescale users which might be relevant to your use case: ShiftLeft - code analysis and security scanning to catch vulnerabilities [ https://blog.shiftleft.io/time-series-at-shiftleft-e1f981969... ] k6 - a load testing tool that scales to 100k concurrent users, analyzes performance over time, etc. [ https://www.timescale.com/case-studies/k6 ] If you want to talk specific scenarios, you can rea…
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on “Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free”Submitted TimescaleDB 2.7 vs. PostgreSQL 14 as a story · 117 points
HN discussionThat would be permitted, as long as the service isn't just a "TimescaleDB-as-a-service." [0] For example, if the service allowed users to only make DML changes (access / modify data) then it is ok, but DDL changes (creating / modifying database schemas) is not permitted. In fact, we already have 100s of SaaS companies using TimescaleDB as part of their offering. [0] https://www.timescale.com/legal/licenses
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on “Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free”Submitted Observing Our Observability Tool as a story · 27 points
HN discussionAn important clarification is that Azure, Digital Ocean, Rackspace (Object Rocket), Alibaba Cloud -- which all support managed TimescaleDB today -- only offer the Apache-2 version of TimescaleDB. Many of the more advanced features of TimescaleDB, including this distributed options, is released under the Timescale License . All code under the Timescale License is also source available and people are free to use, inco…
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on “Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free”Submitted We scaled PostgreSQL to 350 TB+ (with 10B new records/day) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionVery, very similar to the tech stack we have in my engineering teams (other than we use Flask and SQLAlchemy instead of Django). Really like it. I've not heard of ClickHouse before, but that looks interesting. (If I had a requirement around time series, I was thinking of checking out Timescale - https://www.timescale.com .)
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on “The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS”Submitted 12 Days of PostgreSQL Tools and Projects as a story · 25 points
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