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Built on PostgreSQL, Tiger Cloud combines robustness and flexibility to tame your most demanding workloads, from real-time analytics and IoT data to events and vector embeddings.
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May 02, 2026
Working SQL examples for replacing Elasticsearch, Pinecone, InfluxDB, Redis, and more, using Postgres extensions you can enable today.
May 01, 2026
For IIoT engineers: a personal take on integrating HiveMQ and TimescaleDB. One Postgres connector, no custom pipeline, no extra database to run.
Random UUIDv4 keys cause B-tree page splits and bloat indexes up to 35%. See how UUIDv7's time-ordered IDs keep Postgres ingestion fast at scale.
Apr 29, 2026
Optimization problems stay fixed. Architectural ones come back. A framework for knowing which you're dealing with before you've spent months on the wrong fix.
Apr 24, 2026
Normalized schemas create latency at scale. This guide shows when to flatten your tables and use columnar compression to cut join overhead and reclaim query speed.
Apr 23, 2026
How the Embodied Carbon Observatory uses TimescaleDB to cut queries from 6s to under 100ms, separating real decarbonization from grid improvement.
Apr 22, 2026
TimescaleDB 2.26 delivers 3.5x faster time_bucket() aggregations, 70x faster summary queries, and 2x faster multi-column lookups. No query rewrites needed.
Apr 20, 2026
Every 1 KB insert in Postgres becomes ~2.5 KB of committed I/O before it's done. Here's where the multiplier comes from, and where the tuning knobs run out.
