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Date Published
Author
Nicolas Quintin
Word count
1573
Language
English
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Summary

Timescale Cloud is a managed service that helps companies store, analyze, and visualize large amounts of time-series data. Nicolas Quintin, head of Data at Octave, shares how the company migrated from AWS Timestream to Timescale Cloud in search of a more mature and scalable database solution. With Timescale Cloud's compression capabilities and continuous aggregates, Octave is able to dramatically save disk space and deliver speedy queries on historical data. The company uses Timescale Cloud to collect and analyze millions of data points daily while improving the safety and predicting maintenance needs of their battery systems. By leveraging the power of continuous aggregates, Octave is able to enable clients to quickly and seamlessly inspect and download historical data of their second-life battery systems.