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I think, its different because its dimension where usefulness of data goes does as the data ages. TimescaleDB for example, does optimisations ( they call it ch

• manigandham 8y ago
  Timescale is just an automatic partitioning extension for Postgres. You can also do it with the native partitioning feature, or pg_partman, or Citus, or other tools. Partitioning the table is the optimization, so that you skip over data when querying and manage it in smaller parts, but Timescale doesn't do anything about older data and neither do most databases.
  • anarazel 8y ago
    > Timescale is just an automatic partitioning extension for Postgres. That, and a good PR operation.