tl;dr TimescaleDB is a does batching + partitioning better than postgres (including postgres 10) can, automatically, and turns postgres into a grade A time seri

tl;dr TimescaleDB is a does batching + partitioning better than postgres (including postgres 10) can, automatically, and turns postgres into a grade A time series database. I'd love to know how TimescaleDB plans to monetize. That said, I actualy did read the article, and it was excellent. I was a little put off by the "IoT" (buzzword fatigue) and like 2% over-editorializing (to set the stage for timescaledb) but it makes sense given that the poster is the CTO, with a company to promote, and the fact that the people who might read the article are varied. Inside the article is a link to a post on why PG10 doesn't quite stack up[0], which was also a great read -- the naive engineer in me immediately asked myself that since PG10 offered improved partitioning why I would need TimescaleDB if I had PG10. Obviously PG10 doesn't offer the chunking, and it doesn't offer automation of the partitions that TimescaleDB does, and it degrades under number of partitions (which is bound to grow with time series data of course). [EDIT] - Ignore the sentence immediately below this edit - write performance is the graphed metric in the article. Sentence left in for posterity. Turns out PG10 writes degrade horribly as partition size increases. They did not graph write speed in the article though, which was a bit disappointing, so I assume the difference was negligible (in the end, you are writing with postgres to multiple chunks/partitions, no matter how efficiently/automatically they were created, so it's probably the same). I've been itching to use TimescaleDB for a while, really glad to see it get exposure like this -- I'm just about ready to go all in on it, I already love Postgres and TimescaleDB means now I can do more awesome things with Postgres. I'd like to hear the profit model of the company though -- how does TimescaleDB plan to make money? [0]: https://blog.timescale.com/time-series-data-postgresql-10-vs-timescaledb-816ee808bac5 https://blog.timescale.com/time-series-data-postgresql-10-vs...