Why Timescale?
Built for developers,
trusted by businesses
A PostgreSQL cloud platform engineered for your most demanding data needs. Built for scale, speed, and savings.

“What would we use if Timescale didn’t exist is one of those topics that I like not to think about because it gives me anxiety.”
Brock Friedrich, software engineer at Density
Read Density’s Developer Q&A



Control costs with no concessions
- Save 90%+ storage space with our advanced compression algorithms
- Reduce your storage footprint automatically via data retention policies and continuous aggregations
- Scale infinitely without paying per query: tier your old data into object storage built on Amazon S3
- Increase your performance with fewer compute resources with our custom optimizations for time-series data and analytics
- Cost-effective and flexible pricing with usage-based storage and a variety of compute options that you can resize anytime
- Rely on top-notch consultative support to unblock any hurdles—at no extra cost
- Receive a simplified bill that you will understand
Finally, a call that’s worth jumping on.Learn how you can save up to 52% on your database bill vs. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.
Enjoy a better PostgreSQL
- Accelerate your development with 44% higher ingest rates, up to 350x faster queries, and 95% storage savings for time-series data*
- Get everything (and more) you rely on PostgreSQL to provide—excellent dev experience, rich ecosystem, tools, and connectors
- Onboard seamlessly—it’s 100% SQL, not “SQL-like”
*compared to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Focus on your application, not your database
- Save time with automatic backups, upgrades, and failover.
- Build faster with one-click high availability with multiple AZs.
- Schedule background jobs to automate common tasks, such as tracking billing or exporting data.

Timescale features
Time-series analytics
- Automatic partitioning via hypertables
- Built-in flexible time bucketing
- Continuous aggregations
- Advanced analytical functions
- Full SQL
- Join time-series and relational tables
- Optimized time-based constraint exclusion
- Full ecosystem of PostgreSQL features, connectors, and drivers
Operational management
- Highly-rated Support Team available for consultative advice
- AWS cloud infrastructure
- Independent compute and storage scaling
- Up to 16 TB disks
- Infinite data storage with Amazon S3
- Instant pause/resume
- One-click high availability via multi-AZ replicas
- Database forking
- Automated backup and recovery
- Automated upgrades
- Metrics export via Datadog, AWS CloudWatch
Data lifecycle management
- 90%+ storage savings via compression
- Automated data retention policies
- Automated downsampling
- User-defined actions
- Automated data reordering on disk
Security and compliance
- Role-based access control
- Data encrypted at rest and in transit
- Advanced network security
- SOC2 type2 and GDPR compliant
- Multiple payment methods
- Automatic partitioning via hypertables
- Built-in flexible time bucketing
- Continuous aggregations
- Advanced analytical functions
- Full SQL
- Join time-series and relational tables
- Optimized time-based constraint exclusion
- Full ecosystem of PostgreSQL features, connectors, and drivers
- Highly-rated Support Team available for consultative advice
- AWS cloud infrastructure
- Independent compute and storage scaling
- Up to 16 TB disks
- Infinite data storage with Amazon S3
- Instant pause/resume
- One-click high availability via multi-AZ replicas
- Database forking
- Automated backup and recovery
- Automated upgrades
- Metrics export via Datadog, AWS CloudWatch
- 90%+ storage savings via compression
- Automated data retention policies
- Automated downsampling
- User-defined actions
- Automated data reordering on disk
- Role-based access control
- Data encrypted at rest and in transit
- Advanced network security
- SOC2 type2 and GDPR compliant
- Multiple payment methods

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