Technically, the hyper in hypertable was originally connected to the fact that they hypercubes as part of the partitioning logic: https://github.com/timescale/t

Technically, the hyper in hypertable was originally connected to the fact that they hypercubes as part of the partitioning logic: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/src/hypercube.h https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/blob/master/src/hyp... Over time, that connection sort of got lost in favor of hypertables just being useful for storing and analyzing time-series data. So, these functions are conceptually similar in that they make analyzing time-series data easier, even if they don't involve hypercubes or the like. And I'd bet that most users will use hyperfunctions on their data in hypertables, but you can also use them on data in regular Postgres tables etc.