Timescale product legend
At Timescale, we help the PostgreSQL community improve their time-series and analytics workloads. We offer a cloud service, also named Timescale, as well as TimescaleDB, a PostgreSQL extension which provides some of the database features of Timescale. Any TimescaleDB database using the Timescale License contains features such as:
- Hypertables
- Continuous aggregates
- Compression
- And more...
On top of that, Timescale, the cloud service, provides added convenience such as worry-free backups and easy replicas, and exclusive features such as data tiering to object storage.
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Timescale
Timescale is a PostgreSQL data platform for time-series, events, and analytics. It extends PostgreSQL with the power of the cloud, so you can build faster and scale further at effective cost.
Self-hosted TimescaleDB
A PostgreSQL extension that includes the database features of Timescale. Host on your own hardware.
Managed Service for TimescaleDB
Hosted TimescaleDB provided in partnership with Aiven.