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TimeStored.com
Company blog · timestored.com · on HN as RyanHamiltondataprogramming
TimeStored.com is the company blog at timestored.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2014, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 81 times, most often “QStudio: Free, Cross-Platform, SQL Analysis Tool for Databases”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as a kdb+/q resource hub: tutorials, getting-started guides, the QStudio IDE, and posts comparing q-sql with SQL and covering column-store databases.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- QStudio: Free, Cross-Platform, SQL Analysis Tool for Databases3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-09-08
- /time-series-data/column-oriented-databases2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-02-16
- /b/kdb-qsql-query-vs-sql/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-12-19
- /kdb-guides/getting-started-kdb2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-03-31
- Every Time-Series Database Benchmark Ever2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-16
- Jq – open-source implementation of q programming language2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-17
- Modern Databases for Finance Event2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-10-23
- /kdb-training/free-student-access2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-25
- Pipe-Lining Time Series Calculations for Cache Efficiency (2014)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-14
- Analyzing Stock Data with DuckDB2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-03
What Hacker News says?
I also didn't like the existing notebook implementations. I wanted it to run locally, be based on markdown, specialized for just SQL and be easy to store in git. So I wrote one myself: https://www.timestored.com/sqlnotebook/ It ships as part of qstudio and can connect to 30+ databases. If you have any feedback please leave it on github, I only released it a few months ago.
Comment linking /sqlnotebook/
on “The DuckDB Local UI”Submitted Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor as a story · 355 points
HN discussionCongratulations on the launch. Looks very cool. If anyone is looking for a local non Web based editor please check out qstudio: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/help/duckdb-sql-editor
Comment linking /qstudio/help/duckdb-sql-editor
on “The DuckDB Local UI”Submitted The future of kdb+? as a story · 219 points
HN discussion>kind of wished that Azure Data Studio (now discontinued) had directly supported loading CSV/TXT etc into an in-memory or temp db for queries and portability QStudio supports right click query csv,txt,parquet via duckdb. It also supports more exotic data sources like rest apis by placing the data into a temp table. I called it babeldb https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/csv-file-viewer
Comment linking /qstudio/csv-file-viewer
on “Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS”Submitted QStudio SQL Analysis tool now open source as a story · 23 points
HN discussioncough My side projects: http://jpad.io/ - Java snippet runner that means less boilerplate and automatic display as html tables / charts. http://www.sqldashboards.com/ - Real time chart your database queries http://www.timestored.com/ - Niche database training and tools cough always be pushing :)
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on “How to never complete anything”Submitted Analyzing Stock Data with DuckDB as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNice! https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/
Comment linking /qstudio/
on “I turned my open-source project into a full-time business”Submitted QStudio: Free, Cross-Platform, SQL Analysis Tool for Databases as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI took the query only what you need approach with PulseUI: https://www.timestored.com/pulse/ It emphasises not sending all data to the client. For real-time and very large data sets this is the only option.
Comment linking /pulse/
on “Observable 2.0, a static site generator for data apps”Submitted jq as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> You are outlining some general purpose programming language that allows querying, information retrieval, maybe declaratively or functionally or using objects? Yes. That is the mindset in see how "Do Better Than SQL". > How expressive would this language be?.... As expressive as any other. By coincidence I'm building a relational lang as side project but my post was more about think in how SQL limitations can be li…
Comment linking /kdb-guides/kdb-database-intro
on “We Can Do Better Than SQL”Submitted Every Time-Series Database Benchmark Ever as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>Would love to hear from the community on building natural language interfaces to relational data. I produce a free sql editor that allows users to plugin openai to perform text to sql: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/help/ai-text2sql so far uptake is slow and the only good benefit is to spit out a few queries as a starting point. The accuracy went up significantly by sending schema and sample data but it sounds…
Comment linking /qstudio/help/ai-text2sql
on “Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product”Submitted Can DuckDB do everything that a million dollar database can do? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recently took a big gamble on DuckDB. I've added it to the core of qStudio a free SQL editor. Now within the editor you can save table results from any database to the local duckdb instance or you can even perform joins amongst any server and I do mean almost any server. Out of the box DuckDB supports mysql/postgresql but I've added support for 20+ other database though it probably doesn't support all their types.…
Comment linking /qstudio/duckdb-file-viewer
on “DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database”Submitted Open Source Alternative to kdb? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI agree. Clickhouse is awesomely powerful and fast. I maintain a list of benchmarks, if you know of any speed comparisons please let me know and I will add them to the lsit: https://www.timestored.com/data/time-series-database-benchma...
Comment linking /data/time-series-database-benchmarks
on “Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB”Submitted Pipe-Lining Time Series Calculations for Cache Efficiency (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you want to plot time-series charts or many other charts directly from sql queries, qStudio is a free SQL IDE and works with everything including TimescaleDB: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/database/timescale Disclaimer, I am the author.
Comment linking /qstudio/database/timescale
on “Loading a trillion rows of weather data into TimescaleDB”Submitted Every Time-Series Database Benchmark Ever (2025) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTimestored | React UI Engineer (Data-Heavy UIs / SlickGrid) | Remote | Contract POSITION NOW CLOSED TO APPLICATIONS. We build Pulse, a real-time analytics UI used in finance: https://www.timestored.com/pulse/ Looking for a React engineer experienced with complex data UIs to help improve our grid layer (SlickGrid), add grouping/aggregations, and polish high-performance components. Work directly with the founder; flex…
Comment linking /pulse/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted Modern Databases for Finance (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLocal markdown file based sql notebooks: https://www.timestored.com/sqlnotebook Disclaimer: I'm the author
Comment linking /sqlnotebook
on “Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI”Submitted Modern Databases for Finance Event as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you want to get started with prql check out qstudio https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/prql-ide it allows running prql easily against mysql postgresql duckdb etc
Comment linking /qstudio/prql-ide
on “Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI”Submitted Show HN: QStudio – SQL Analysis Tool as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've written an open source version of q: http://www.timestored.com/jq/ It's implemented in java. You idea is interesting. Allowing q and java intermixed... combining it inside java like linq and C# would be interesting.
Comment linking /jq/
on “Try APL”Submitted Jq – open-source implementation of q programming language as a story · 1 points
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