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Thanks for the feedback. I'm curious - what kind of pricing would you expect? Also, is this for an R&D workload, or for something that's already in production?

DenseComet 6y ago
I think people are thinking of something similar to Digital Ocean's managed databases or Amazon's RDS, but that's quite a different class of services than what it seems timescale is trying to provide with Timescale Cloud. If people want to play around with timescaleDB for cheap, DigitalOcean claims that their managed postgres supports the timescale extension, but I've never tried it.
- mfreed 6y ago
  Yep, Digital Ocean (as well as Azure, Rackspace, and others) offer TimescaleDB with their managed Postgres offerings, but they can only offer the Apache-2 version. So you don't get native compression, continuous aggregates, downsampling, etc., many of which make the Timescale Cloud version actually less expensive when considering capabilities (e.g., 50GB on Timescale Cloud can store akin to 1TB elsewhere and have faster queries, continuous aggs mean faster and less-CPU to run dashboards, etc).
dkersten 6y ago
Just something that scales more smoothly. The price difference between the lowest (by price) and next lowest is $117, but the difference between that and the third lowest is only $19. I know that the difference isn't the same (more CPU and RAM, vs only more disk space), but it just seems like a big jump. I could very much imagine that I might outgrow the $49 option, but not to the point where I'm willing to pay triple that amount. I'm not necessarily saying you should change it, maybe its just messaging and targetting. I guess on HN you just get a load of us who are interested in using it for smaller projects (where the 49 option might be perfectly fine, of course).
- akulkarni 6y ago
  Appreciate the feedback - thank you!
  - dkersten 6y ago
    You're welcome. I've played with the OSS version of TimescaleDB in the past and am a big fan. Keep up the good work. Perhaps in time, I'll be in a position to use it more seriously.

DenseComet 6y ago

I think people are thinking of something similar to Digital Ocean's managed databases or Amazon's RDS, but that's quite a different class of services than what it seems timescale is trying to provide with Timescale Cloud. If people want to play around with timescaleDB for cheap, DigitalOcean claims that their managed postgres supports the timescale extension, but I've never tried it.

mfreed 6y ago
Yep, Digital Ocean (as well as Azure, Rackspace, and others) offer TimescaleDB with their managed Postgres offerings, but they can only offer the Apache-2 version. So you don't get native compression, continuous aggregates, downsampling, etc., many of which make the Timescale Cloud version actually less expensive when considering capabilities (e.g., 50GB on Timescale Cloud can store akin to 1TB elsewhere and have faster queries, continuous aggs mean faster and less-CPU to run dashboards, etc).

dkersten 6y ago

Just something that scales more smoothly. The price difference between the lowest (by price) and next lowest is $117, but the difference between that and the third lowest is only $19. I know that the difference isn't the same (more CPU and RAM, vs only more disk space), but it just seems like a big jump. I could very much imagine that I might outgrow the $49 option, but not to the point where I'm willing to pay triple that amount. I'm not necessarily saying you should change it, maybe its just messaging and targetting. I guess on HN you just get a load of us who are interested in using it for smaller projects (where the 49 option might be perfectly fine, of course).

akulkarni 6y ago
Appreciate the feedback - thank you!
- dkersten 6y ago
  You're welcome. I've played with the OSS version of TimescaleDB in the past and am a big fan. Keep up the good work. Perhaps in time, I'll be in a position to use it more seriously.