When PostgreSQL Isn't the Right Fit: Recognizing Workloads That Need Different Architecture

PostgreSQL

By NanoHertz Communications

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Jun 12, 2026

Postgres handles 90% of workloads well. Here's how to tell if yours is in the 10% — and what the diagnostic query that confirms it looks like.

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TimescaleDB 2.27: Broader Vectorized Execution, Up to 160x More Efficient UPDATE/DELETE, and Smarter UPSERT Pruning

Announcements & Releases

By Brandon Purcell

Jun 09, 2026

Up to 160x more efficient UPDATE/DELETE, 30% to 2x faster vectorized execution, and skip unnecessary decompression + compression. Here's what's new in TimescaleDB 2.27.

Unify Your Plant-Floor Data with Claude Code and TimescaleDB

IoT

By Damaso Sanoja

May 28, 2026

Learn how to use Claude Code Agent Teams and TimescaleDB to build a unified plant-floor data pipeline — one governed table, three protocols, zero middleware.

How ApexAnalytica Runs Building Telemetry, Transactional Data, and RAG on a Single Postgres Instance

Dev Q&A

By Andrew Stebbins

May 27, 2026

See how open source TimescaleDB powers a year of hourly building energy data in a single heat map view — rendered in under a second across 38 live sites.

TimescaleDB 2.26: 3.5x Faster time_bucket() Aggregations, 70x Faster Summary Queries, and Faster Multi-Column Lookups

Announcements & Releases

By Brandon Purcell

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.

How TimescaleDB Outperforms ClickHouse and MongoDB for LogTide's Observability Platform

Dev Q&A

By Giuseppe Pollio

Apr 15, 2026

How one developer built an open-source log management platform handling 5M logs/day on minimal hardware—using TimescaleDB continuous aggregates, compression, and hypertables.

A Community Member Spotlight Series ... Featuring Your TimescaleDB Projects!

Timescale Community

By Andrew Stebbins

Apr 09, 2026

Built something real with TimescaleDB? Tiger Data's Community Spotlight series features open source projects—no paid relationship needed. Share your story and we'll write it up.

Hexagons, Hypertables, and 240 Dead Tags: Migrating a Maritime Data Platform to TimescaleDB

Dev Q&A

By VesselAPI

Mar 25, 2026

VesselAPI migrated 700K AIS position reports per hour from MongoDB to TimescaleDB—and learned how hexagonal indexing, hypertables, and one struct tag change everything.

First Commit to First Customer: How Startup Takton Shipped in Just Two Months with Tiger Data

Dev Q&A

By Farbod Moghaddam

Mar 18, 2026

Takton built Sense Manufacturing on Tiger Cloud and AWS in just 60 days and cut machine monitoring costs by 70% for small manufacturers.