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the main selling point is developer experience I think, rather than building out a bunch of stuff on top of a more general purpose tool you use a specialized DB
by ren_engineer 5y ago
the main selling point is developer experience I think, rather than building out a bunch of stuff on top of a more general purpose tool you use a specialized DB and save time. They also have some benchmarks against Clickhouse for example
- ashvardanian 5y agoI have just looked up those charts on Timescales website [1] and I am a bit surprised. Never extensively used any of those DBs, but I have seen their sources and must say that expected bigger gaps [2]. Also worth looking: the Taxi Rides Benchmark on Postgres vs Clickhouse [3]. [1]: https://www.timescale.com/blog/what-is-clickhouse-how-does-it-compare-to-postgresql-and-timescaledb-and-how-does-it-perform-for-time-series-data/ https://www.timescale.com/blog/what-is-clickhouse-how-does-i... [2]: https://www.pradeepchhetri.xyz/clickhousevstimescaledb/ https://www.pradeepchhetri.xyz/clickhousevstimescaledb/ [3]: https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html