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
Built for
DevelopersSRE / DevOps