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Ha! Glad to hear :-) Other cloud providers can only offer the Apache-2 version of TimescaleDB. So you wouldn't get native compression, continuous aggregates, d

Ha! Glad to hear :-) Other cloud providers can only offer the Apache-2 version of TimescaleDB. So you wouldn't get native compression, continuous aggregates, downsampling, etc. So again, the value add in Timescale Cloud are those features (all of which took a long time to build!). Also: we fully manage the database, are responsible for keeping it online, are available for support via email and Slack, etc. The only real alternative to Timescale Cloud is to run it yourself, where you get the features but not the services/support. But you are welcome to do that if you'd like :-).

GordonS 6y ago
> Other cloud providers can only offer the Apache-2 version of TimescaleDB. So you wouldn't get native compression, continuous aggregates, downsampling, etc. Ah yes - I was forgetting that! > So again, the value add in Timescale Cloud are those features Hmm, not really; those are the value-add from TimescaleDB itself, not Timescale Cloud. I guess I'm going to remain unconvinced for now, but I really hope that, with time, the Timescale Cloud team works on adding more value vs self-hosting, as personally I don't think it brings enough value to justify the pricing as-is.
- akulkarni 6y ago
  No problem at all, if you prefer self-hosting then we encourage that. (And as you can see, we are continuing to invest in our self-hosted community [0]) [0] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/multi-node-petabyte-scale-time-series-database-postgresql-free-tsdb/ https://blog.timescale.com/blog/multi-node-petabyte-scale-ti... Btw - always happy to chat directly if you'd like. Feel free to reach out! ajay (at) timescale.com