Infra & metrics

TimescaleDB

TigerData (ex-Timescale)

A PostgreSQL extension that turns Postgres into a time-series DB — appealing when you want SQL and to reuse the Postgres ecosystem for metrics.

Category
Infra & metrics
License
Open core
Deployment
SaaS or self-hosted
Cost
Low
Free tier
Yes
Self-host effort
Moderate
Maturity
Established
Popularity
≈22.8k GitHub stars

The catch

Inherits Postgres's row-store overhead so it's slower on heavy time-series than columnar rivals, and the best compression/continuous-aggregate features live under the non-OSI "TSL" license.

Monitors

MetricsServers

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DevelopersSRE / DevOps