Tiered storage

Tiered storage is a hierarchical storage management architecture for time series and analytics services you create in Timescale Cloud.

Engineered for infinite low-cost scalability, tiered storage consists of the following:

• High-performance storage tier: stores the most recent and frequently queried data. This tier comes in two types, standard and enhanced, and provides you with up to 64 TB of storage and 32,000 IOPS.

• Object storage tier: stores data that is rarely accessed and has lower performance requirements. For example, old data for auditing or reporting purposes over long periods of time, even forever. The object storage tier is low-cost and bottomless.

No matter the tier your data is stored in, you can query it when you need it. Timescale Cloud seamlessly accesses the correct storage tier and generates the response.

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You define tiering policies that automatically migrate data from the high-performance storage tier to the object tier as it ages. You use retention policies to remove very old data from the object storage tier.

With tiered storage you don't need an ETL process, infrastructure changes, or custom-built, bespoke solutions to offload data to secondary storage and fetch it back in when needed. Kick back and relax, we do the work for you.

In this section, you:

• Learn more about storage tiers: understand how the tiers are built and how they differ.
• Manage storage and tiering: configure high-performance storage, object storage, and data tiering.
• Query tiered data: query the data in the object storage.
• Learn about replicas and forks with tiered data: understand how tiered storage works with forks and replicas of your service.