postgresql timescaledb

1. What is TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL?
2. What is TimescaleDB used for?
3. What is TimescaleDB extension?
4. How do I access TimescaleDB?
5. Is TimescaleDB opensource?
6. Is Postgres a database?
7. Who uses TimescaleDB?
8. Is TimescaleDB NoSQL?
9. How much does TimescaleDB cost?
10. How do I create a TimescaleDB?
11. How do I know if TimescaleDB is installed?
12. What is Postgres extension?

What is TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL?

TimescaleDB is an open-source database designed to make SQL scalable for time-series data. It is engineered up from PostgreSQL and packaged as a PostgreSQL extension, providing automatic partitioning across time and space (partitioning key), as well as full SQL support.

What is TimescaleDB used for?

TimescaleDB can store all of your application metrics at a fraction of the cost of an analytics service. Timescale gives you all the reliability and flexibility of PostgreSQL, meaning you can use full SQL to construct queries to better understand your products and delight your users.

What is TimescaleDB extension?

TimescaleDB is “Postgres for time-series.” It's packaged as a Postgres extension and is purpose-built for time-series use cases.

How do I access TimescaleDB?

Welcome to Timescale Cloud.
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Service Plans: A Service Plan defines the configuration and level of database management that will be performed for a given TimescaleDB deployed.

1. Step 1 - Sign up for Timescale Cloud. ...
2. Step 2 - Create your first service. ...
3. Step 3 - Install psql (or another preferred SQL client like pgAdmin)

Is TimescaleDB opensource?

TimescaleDB Open Source is made available under the Apache 2.0 License. TimescaleDB Community is made available under the Timescale License ("TSL")

Is Postgres a database?

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that uses and extends the SQL language combined with many features that safely store and scale the most complicated data workloads.

Who uses TimescaleDB?

37 companies reportedly use TimescaleDB in their tech stacks, including LaunchDarkly, Kasa, and wadiz.

Is TimescaleDB NoSQL?

TimescaleDB is an open-source time-series database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. It speaks "full SQL" and is correspondingly easy to use like a traditional relational database, yet scales in ways previously reserved for NoSQL databases.

How much does TimescaleDB cost?

Get started quickly. Launch your first database in seconds. As low as $24/month.

How do I create a TimescaleDB?

Using psql from the command line, create a database called nyc_data and install the extension: CREATE DATABASE nyc_data; \c nyc_data CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS timescaledb CASCADE; You're all set to follow along locally!

How do I know if TimescaleDB is installed?

If you have two versions of PostgreSQL installed, use pg_config to find out which version TimescaleDB was installed with.

What is Postgres extension?

PostgreSQL extension functionality allows for bundling multiple SQL objects together in a single package that can be loaded or removed from your database. Once you load it into your database, extensions can function as built-in features.