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Timescale Documentation
What is Timescale?
Timescale is a database platform engineered to deliver speed and scale to resource-intensive workloads, which makes it great for things like time series, event, and analytics data. Timescale is built on PostgreSQL, so you have access to the entire PostgreSQL ecosystem, with a user-friendly interface that simplifies database deployment and management.
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Hypertables
Hypertables are PostgreSQL tables that automatically partition your data by time. You get the full benefit of PostgreSQL, plus extra features that make managing your time-series data much easier.
Continuous aggregates
Time-series data usually grows very quickly. That means aggregating your data into useful summaries can become very slow. Continuous aggregates incrementally aggregate your data, so it becomes lightning fast to get updated summaries.
Compression
Compressing your time-series data allows you to decrease your chunk size by more than 90%. This saves on storage costs, and keeps your queries operating at lightning speed.