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A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension

71 mentions on Hacker News by 46 people: 3 stories, 68 comments · first 2017-04-04 · latest 2026-06-15

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  1. There’s an issue tracking TimescaleDB JSONB compression: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/2978
    comment by PaulWaldman · 2026-06-15 · in How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data
  2. Also https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb I've found it very useful for storing geospatial data over time.
    comment by Zambyte · 2026-05-08 · in GeoJSON
  3. Even for timeseries there is https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb . Haven't used it, just knew it existed.
    comment by freilanzer · 2025-05-15 · in Migrating to Postgres
  4. …2 https://github.com/hydradatabase/columnar/blob/v1.1.2/LICENS... - Timescale is mostly Apache 2 https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/2.18.2/LICENSE
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-02-23 · in Reliably replicating data between Postgres and ClickHouse
  5. …like[1] or[2]. [1] https://github.com/lemire/FastPFor/blob/master/headers/simpl... [2] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/403782a5899c75...
    comment by jcgrillo · 2024-10-24 · in Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
  6. > based on the time period Is it the kind of thing where the TimescaleDB extension would make sense? https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
    comment by justinclift · 2024-09-11 · in K1 Buys MariaDB
  7. Compression and other features use the non-Apache license: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/tree/main/tsl
    comment by pmeira · 2024-05-21 · in pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL
  8. …red flags in the apache variant of timescale, just constant pleading to try their hosted option. https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/main/LICENSE-A...
    comment by eyegor · 2024-05-21 · in pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL
  9. …or petabyte range, then you probably need something like a distributed VictoriaMetrics setup. https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
    comment by tutfbhuf · 2024-02-06 · in PostgreSQL is enough
  10. …you did something like create table xyz(...) using orioledb; select create_hypertable(xyz, ts); [0] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
    comment by eyegor · 2023-07-16 · in PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat
  11. …https://github.com/Logflare/logflare_logger_backend [3]: https://github.com/citusdata/citus [4]: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb edit: Ah looks like Chase answered as well :)
    comment by lyziinc · 2023-04-11 · in Supabase Logs: open-source logging server
  12. As far as I know, this is v2 of https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
    comment by yencabulator · 2022-11-16 · in Bottomless, consumption-based storage for PostgreSQL built on Amazon S3
  13. I do want to note Timescale's license is extremely generous: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/main/tsl/LICEN... There's a marked difference between what they allow you vs Mongo (SSPL) and Elastic (Elastic license) -- see (b).…
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-10-17 · in The Dead End
  14. …"readonly" database :( Update/delete of current chunk data blocked during compression of old data https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/4432
    comment by maierru · 2022-09-22 · in TimescaleDB 2.7 vs. PostgreSQL 14
  15. …as a postgres extension, there's a GitHub project here if anyone is interested to check in on that https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
    comment by LoriP · 2022-07-27 · in SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees
  16. …creating a second continuous aggregate! If you haven't checked them out, please do! [2][3] [1]: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/1400 [2]: https://www.timescale.com/blog/introducing-hyperfunctions-ne... [3]:…
    comment by ryanbooz · 2022-06-21 · in How we made data aggregation on PostgreSQL better and faster
  17. I appreciate the response! Here is the github issue https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/1446
    comment by fourseventy · 2022-02-23 · in Timescale raises $110M Series C
  18. Thanks for letting me know. Have you filed a Github issue? If so, could you point me to it? Thanks! https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
    comment by akulkarni · 2022-02-23 · in Timescale raises $110M Series C
  19. …growing the teams aggressively! Fully remote & global. https://www.timescale.com/careers -- [0] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb [1] https://www.timescale.com/blog/function-pipelines-building-f... [2]…
    comment by mfreed · 2022-02-22 · in Timescale raises $110M Series C
  20. Closed source? https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/tree/master/tsl/src...
    comment by Croftengea · 2021-11-03 · in TimescaleDB vs ClickHouse
  21. …move nearly as fast. [1]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/introducing-hyperfunctions-n... [2]: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-toolkit [3]: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb [4]: https://github.com/zombodb/pgx
    comment by djk447 · 2021-10-19 · in Function pipelines: Building functional programming into PostgreSQL
  22. …or services"), this license wouldn't apply for non-Timescale code. [Timescale co-founder here] [0] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/NOTICE
    comment by mfreed · 2021-09-20 · in ClickHouse, Inc.
  23. …was originally connected to the fact that they hypercubes as part of the partitioning logic: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/src/hyp... Over time, that connection sort of got lost in favor of hypertables just being…
    comment by djk447 · 2021-07-27 · in What time-weighted averages are and why you should care
  24. …this can help find a good balance between stability and velocity, but feedback welcome! [1] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/releases/tag/0.11.0 [2] https://github.com/timescale/timescale-analytics/tree/main/e...
    comment by mfreed · 2021-05-05 · in TimescaleDB raises $40M
  25. …A good reference point for this to check out the `multinode` label in their github issues. https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/labels/multinode One of the big items that stood out to me is the inability to be able to migrate data from…
    comment by spmurrayzzz · 2021-05-05 · in TimescaleDB raises $40M
  26. …more prominent): Apache-2 licensed binaries can be built by passing -DAPACHE_ONLY=1 to bootstrap. https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
    comment by akulkarni · 2021-04-21 · in Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
  27. …to build it yourself. It's important to us and we'll focus on completing that integration soon! https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/pull/2498
    comment by ryanbooz · 2020-12-03 · in TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream
  28. Except timescaledb is open source: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
    comment by rattray · 2020-12-03 · in TimescaleDB vs. Amazon Timestream
  29. Can you elaborate on what you mean by TimescaleDB not being open source? https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
    comment by grzm · 2020-11-10 · in InfluxDB is betting on Rust and Apache Arrow for next-gen data store
  30. …that are built with timescale underneath but not offer the product itself as a service. [1]: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/tsl/LIC...
    comment by spockz · 2020-11-09 · in No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
  31. …:) Anyway, here's the link to license pointers in github, and you can find all code there: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/LICENSE Source code in this repository is variously licensed under the Apache License Version…
    comment by mfreed · 2020-09-26 · in An update to the Timescale license
  32. …is a good thing! All of our source code (both Apache-2 and TSL) has always been public on github: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
    comment by mfreed · 2020-09-24 · in An update to the Timescale license
  33. …fact, I just tried it and it works. However, it currently requires an unmerged PR to work properly: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/pull/2082 , as well as further testing.
    comment by enordstr · 2020-07-22 · in ListenBrainz moves to TimescaleDB
  34. …is successfully dumped. also i can see the constraints, indexes are also copied successfully." https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/1835
    comment by akulkarni · 2020-07-22 · in ListenBrainz moves to TimescaleDB
  35. …is successfully dumped. also i can see the constraints, indexes are also copied successfully." https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/1835
    comment by akulkarni · 2020-07-22 · in ListenBrainz moves to TimescaleDB
  36. …want to love timescaledb, it's great.. except for the minor issue of not being able to back up. https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/1835
    comment by thejosh · 2020-07-22 · in ListenBrainz moves to TimescaleDB
  37. If I'm reading https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/tsl/LIC... right, then for a SaaS company -- not necessarily a database-as-a-service company -- section 3.11 states that SaaS company can't run Data Definition Language…
    comment by lahaela · 2020-05-27 · in Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
  38. …commercial applications on top of Timescale Licensed software (while adhering to the license). [0] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/tsl/LIC...
    comment by akulkarni · 2020-05-22 · in Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
  39. Absolutely possibly to upstream changes. People have, and we welcome contributions: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/CONTRIB...
    comment by mfreed · 2020-05-22 · in Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
  40. …Interfaces, in a Timescale Database utilized by such Value Added Products or Services. [def] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/tsl/LIC... What that means is that if you've defined the Heap schema, you have built the…
    comment by mfreed · 2020-05-22 · in Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
  41. …a huge risk and without further clarification, makes me want to stay far away from TimescaleDB. [0] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/tsl/LIC...
    comment by malisper · 2020-05-22 · in Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
  42. …effort going in a private branch that had PRs and code review for each of the 226 commits :) https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/pull/1923/commits
    comment by mfreed · 2020-05-22 · in Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
  43. …of a massive amount of engineering effort over two years, as can be seen in this +67,000 line PR: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/pull/1923 We're thrilled to make this free so that more developers can use it.
    comment by akulkarni · 2020-05-22 · in Multi-node TimescaleDB is now free
  44. …join is still an open issue in their issue tracker so it is not usable as a time series database. https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/271
    comment by snidane · 2020-05-03 · in Medium-hard SQL interview questions
  45. …continuous aggregates (just on a cursory glance) don’t support stacked aggregates, for example: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/1400
    comment by benesch · 2020-02-19 · in Materialize: A Streaming Data Warehouse
  46. …go into timescaleDB [2]. [1] https://github.com/real-logic/aeron/wiki/Java-Programming-Gu... [2] https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
    comment by platform · 2020-01-03 · in Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system
  47. Still waiting for AWS RDS for PostgresSQL to support the TimescaleDB extension, 2 years and counting: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/65
    comment by hbcondo714 · 2019-08-21 · in Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL
  48. Still waiting for AWS RDS for PostgresSQL to support the TimescaleDB extension, 2 years and counting: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/65
    comment by hbcondo714 · 2019-07-10 · in Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports Serverless
  49. …providers), the community features are free. This is the actual top-level LICENSE file in the repo: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/LICENSE And here's a blog post discussing in more depth:…
    comment by mfreed · 2019-05-07 · in Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB
  50. Link to a file that actually contains said license: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/tsl/LIC...
    comment by detaro · 2019-05-07 · in Zabbix, Time Series Data and TimescaleDB