Tiger Data (Timescale)

How We Scaled PostgreSQL to 350 TB+

Timescale dogfooded its own Postgres extension to build a database-observability product, using hypertables, columnar compression and tiered storage to keep a 350 TB+ dataset queryable.

Published
2023-11-02
Scale
350 TB+, 10 billion new records/day
Techniques
partitioning compression tiered storage
Stack
PostgreSQL TimescaleDB

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