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New comment by LoriP in "The Dead End"

LoriP — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:58:30 +0000

That was a bad explanation on my part, sorry. They are still open source! But they diverged from keeping fully aligned with MySQL developments AFAIK so are no longer a fork/distribution as they are forging their own path.

So I was being unclear, the "until a couple of years ago" was referring to divergence rather than a change in license.

New comment by LoriP in "The Dead End"

LoriP — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 08:46:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing this point of view. For those interested, I wanted to share this blog post that explains the Timescale approach in detail. https://www.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-business...

Timescale's community manager.

New comment by LoriP in "The Dead End"

LoriP — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 07:03:52 +0000

Your case in point dropped off, but Percona (MySQL and MongoDB distributions) and until a couple of years ago MariaDB fell into this category I think.

New comment by LoriP in "TimescaleDB 2.7 vs. PostgreSQL 14"

LoriP — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:01:47 +0000

folks like to chat about benchmarks

New comment by LoriP in "TimescaleDB 2.7 vs. PostgreSQL 14"

LoriP — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 09:00:37 +0000

Timescale doesn't charge for any of its software. Revenue comes from providing hosting services that are optimized towards TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL at scale.

The code is source-available, license philosophy is explained in this blog post https://www.timescale.com/blog/building-open-source-business...

That includes the HA implementation, and I think someone else shared the docs for that. Hope this helps.

New comment by LoriP in "Show HN: pg_netstat, a Postgres extension to monitor database network traffic"

LoriP — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:02:34 +0000

Thanks for the mentions (and for using TimescaleDB).

If anyone's curious about TimescaleDB, it's packaged as an extension to Postgres, optimizing for performance, storage, and analysis of time series data. Implementing columnar compression algorithms is a big part of the secret sauce that makes TimescaleDB a popular choice with Postgres and SQL developers. You can read more about that on the Timescale blog (I'm Timescale's community manager btw). https://www.timescale.com/blog/search/?query=compression

If anyone's curious, the youtube channel may be a good place to start, especially this playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsceB9ac9MHTtM1XWONMR...

New comment by LoriP in "Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy"

LoriP — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 08:27:41 +0000

Have to say I love this use case of TimescaleDB and Grafana – a perfect example of time series data used for something small and useful to prove a theory. In case anyone's tantalized the TimescaleDB YouTube channel has some great free how-to videos on setting up TimescaleDB and Grafana.

New comment by LoriP in "SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees"

LoriP — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:23:31 +0000

TimescaleDB is packaged as a postgres extension, there's a GitHub project here if anyone is interested to check in on that https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb

New comment by LoriP in "PostgreSQL views and materialized views and how they influenced TimescaleDB"

LoriP — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 09:09:45 +0000

Hello would like to check in on this with you. You can find my email address in my profile, I am Timescale's community manager. Thanks!

New comment by LoriP in "PostgreSQL 14 Internals Book"

LoriP — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:46:02 +0000

Timescale is hiring for a Software Engineer (Database Internals) and this could also be a senior-level hire. It's based on PostgreSQL but if the rest of the resume stacks up it's not 100% essential that you've worked on PostgreSQL internals before. Global, remote.

Why do people participate in small online communities? (research paper)

LoriP — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:51:26 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04282

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834309

Points: 2

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New comment by LoriP in "AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Columnar engine"

LoriP — Fri, 27 May 2022 11:50:58 +0000

This article discusses how TimescaleDB (packaged as an extension to PostgreSQL) approaches performance improvements, though it's a bit of an old piece and things have moved on with TimescaleDB too. It gives some good insights though. https://www.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-6a696248104e/ There are some more recent articles on the blog about performance and benchmarks if you're tantalized by that one.

Transparency: I work for Timescale

New comment by LoriP in "Show HN: Vantage Autopilot – Save on AWS EC2 Costs"

LoriP — Tue, 24 May 2022 17:26:51 +0000

is there a possibility of server downtime using this service?

New comment by LoriP in "Jd"

LoriP — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:49:00 +0000

If you want some intro info – and you may have found it already – the YouTube channel is a great place to start for TimescaleDB youtube.com/TimescaleDB (for tranparency: I work for Timescale...)

New comment by LoriP in "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)"

LoriP — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 14:09:51 +0000

Just wanted to say that TimescaleDB is an extension of PostgreSQL and so it uses SQL. MySQL would use SQL too.

InfluxDB does, indeed, have its own query language though.

Learn OpenTelemetry tracing with this lightweight microservices demo

LoriP — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:43:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.timescale.com/blog/learn-opentelemetry-tracing-with-this-lightweight-microservices-demo-tentative/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30456869

Points: 16

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New comment by LoriP in "Timescale raises $110M Series C"

LoriP — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 05:41:56 +0000

Wonderful... I'll seek you out today, really appreciate your help. Maybe you will have the magic touch. (sorry for radio silence, timezones!)

New comment by LoriP in "Timescale raises $110M Series C"

LoriP — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:00:31 +0000

Thank you, I might take you up on that...and exchange experiences lol

New comment by LoriP in "Timescale raises $110M Series C"

LoriP — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:07:21 +0000

Timescale's Community Manager here. Unfortunately that's a longish story of a strongly opinionated Wikipedia editor.

Select the most recent record (of many items) with PostgreSQL

LoriP — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 13:26:16 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/select-the-most-recent-record-of-many-items-with-postgresql/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30272336

Points: 15

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