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Scaling Time-Series Workloads on Postgres

Sep 22, 2026 SED Production 48:23

Time-series data has a distinctive shape: written far more often than updated, always accumulating, and queried across ranges of time. TimescaleDB is an open source Postgres extension from Tiger Data built for exactly that workload. Brandon Purcell, Director of Product Management at Tiger Data, joins Kevin Ball to discuss why time-series data breaks conventional databases and how hypertables and Hypercore scale Postgres

Scaling Time-Series Workloads on Postgres

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