Timescale Cloud indeed comes with PostGIS installed by default. Regarding distributed (Citus) and columnar (Zedstore): - TimescaleDB's compression actually ta

Timescale Cloud indeed comes with PostGIS installed by default. Regarding distributed (Citus) and columnar (Zedstore): - TimescaleDB's compression actually takes a columnar approach (including that it only reads the individual compressed columns that you SELECT), and so combines both row- and column-oriented data. [0] - TimescaleDB 2.0 also supports distributed deployment, and Timescale Cloud will (very soon) offer one-click deployment of fully-managed multi-node TimescaleDB. [1] [0] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compression-in-a-row-oriented-database/ https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-columnar-compressio... [1] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-a-distributed-time-series-database-on-postgresql/ https://blog.timescale.com/blog/building-a-distributed-time-...