Community update (4/4/18)
TimescaleDB vs. InfluxDB, Read-only clustering, Visiting London/Paris/SF, Windows & Debian binaries, 2 new releases, and more
Hi friends,
Let’s start with a fun fact: On this day one year ago, TimescaleDB officially launched to the public. (ICYMI: Read our launch post.)
12 months later, we’ve passed hundreds of thousands of downloads (and 4400+ Github stars), raised $16M+ in funding, and are in production deployments worldwide.
Again, and again, thank you for your support, especially those who have been with us since the beginning.
Here’s what else is new:
1. Timescale’s busy Feb/March: 23 talks, 8 conferences + Meetups, 6 cities (Bangalore, Pune, Amsterdam, San Jose, SF, LA).
2. And we’re back on the road in April/May.
Here’s our schedule (please say hi!):
- 4/9 [NYC] — IoT NY: Edge Intelligence on IoT Day
- 4/12 [Ottawa] — Ottawa Data User Group (hosted/organized by one of our users)
- 4/18–4/20 [NYC] — PostgresConf (3 talks)
- Including one with the European Space Agency: “Time-series for the European Space Agency Solar Orbiter Archive with TimescaleDB”
- 4/23–4/25 [Santa Clara] — Percona Live (2 talks)
- 5/14–5/17 [Santa Clara] — IoT World
- 5/22–5/24 [London] — Strata Data London
- 5/29 [Ottawa] — PGCon Ottawa
- 6/1 [Paris] — dotScale
3. Replacing InfluxDB with Timescale: 10x better resource utilization, even with 30% more requests.
Written by the CTO of DNSFilter, which provides cloud-based content filtering and threat protection for IT Professionals. Reached #8 HackerNews.
[Full article]
4. Read-only clustering how to: Setting up replication on TimescaleDB for high availability, failover, and balancing read loads across multiple nodes.
A new tutorial by our R&D team.
5. 2 new releases! 0.9.0 and 0.9.1
- Support for multiple extension versions on different databases in the same PostgreSQL instance.
- Significant refactoring to simplify and improve codebase, including improvements to error handling, security/permissions, and more.
- Addition of a migrate_data option to create_hypertable to allow non-empty tables to be turned into hypertables without separate creation & insertion steps.
- Support for adjusting the number of partitions for a space dimension.
- (and more)
- Several edge cases regarding CTEs addressed
- Updated preloader with better error messaging and fixed edge case
- ABI compatibility with latest PostgreSQL to help catch any breaking changes
Big thank you to the following folks for help with these releases: @Anthares, @oldgreen, @fvannee, @maksm90, @Rashid987, RaedA, @haohello, @LonghronShen, @devereaux, @carlospeon, @gumshoes, @simPod, @jbylund, @ryan-shaw, @The-Alchemist, @chaintng, @jgranstrom, @saosebastiao.
6. New binaries for easier install on Windows & Debian:
7. And other news:
- [Video] CTO Mike Freedman speaking at SF Metrics
- [Video[ Core Engineer Erik Nordstrom speaking at GrafanaCon EU
- [Press] The new rise of time-series databases [in manufacturing]: “By virtue of their funding, Timescale and InfluxData are now separated from a pack of OSTSDB companies or open-source efforts, including OpenTSDB, Prometheus, Druid, KairosDB and others. Net of another funding event, it seems Timescale and InfluxData may be staging a repeat of the recent CloudEra/Hortonworks battle among big-data startups.”
- [Press] Momenta interviews Mike and myself (Ajay) on delivering business value in IoT
- [News] Aiven becomes the first DBaaS to provide support for Timescale
Thank you for reading this far, and for your support. Anything we can do to help? Please let us know.
Much love,
Ajay, Mike, and the team
