Hypertables and chunks

Timescale Cloud supercharges your real-time analytics by letting you run complex queries continuously, with near-zero latency. Under the hood, this is achieved by using hypertables - PostgreSQL tables that automatically partition your time-series data by time and optionally by space. When you run a query, Timescale Cloud identifies the correct partition and runs the query on it, instead of going through the entire table.

Hypertables offer a range of other features, such as skipping partitions or running hyperfunctions, that boost the performance of your analytical queries even more.

To top it all, there is no added complexity - you interact with hypertables in the same way as you would with regular PostgreSQL tables. All the optimization magic happens behind the scenes.

For more information about using hypertables, including chunk size partitioning, see the hypertable section.