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Timescale Cloud vs. Amazon RDS PostgreSQL: Up to 350x Faster Queries, 44 % Faster Ingest, 95 % Storage Savings for Time-Series Data

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Date Published
Author
James Blackwood-Sewell
Word Count
3,196
Language
English
Hacker News Points
25
Summary

Timescale Cloud`, a cloud-hosted PostgreSQL service, offers performance and cost efficiency advantages over `Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL`. Performance benchmarks show that `Timescale Cloud` can ingest data up to 44% faster, queries up to 350x faster, and store data at 95% less size. The database provides features like hypertables, continuous aggregates, query planner improvements, hyperfunctions, job scheduling, and native columnar compression for cost efficiency. Additionally, `Timescale Cloud` offers a rich collection of time-series features that weren't used in the benchmark, including analytical hyperfunctions, skip scan, and retention policies. The service is free to use for 30 days with no credit card required.