It may be faster for specific benchmark cases, but in my experience Timescale has had wildly unpredictable performance when used in a production setting. It's a

It may be faster for specific benchmark cases, but in my experience Timescale has had wildly unpredictable performance when used in a production setting. It's also very annoying that you have to remember to run certain timescale functions for backups or restores and there's many more additional background processes running.