That was a bad explanation on my part, sorry. They are still open source!
But they diverged from keeping fully aligned with MySQL developments AFAIK so are no longer a fork/distribution as they are forging their own path.
So I was being unclear, the "until a couple of years ago" was referring to divergence rather than a change in license.
Timescale doesn't charge for any of its software. Revenue comes from providing hosting services that are optimized towards TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL at scale.
Thanks for the mentions (and for using TimescaleDB).
If anyone's curious about TimescaleDB, it's packaged as an extension to Postgres, optimizing for performance, storage, and analysis of time series data. Implementing columnar compression algorithms is a big part of the secret sauce that makes TimescaleDB a popular choice with Postgres and SQL developers. You can read more about that on the Timescale blog (I'm Timescale's community manager btw). https://www.timescale.com/blog/search/?query=compression
Have to say I love this use case of TimescaleDB and Grafana – a perfect example of time series data used for something small and useful to prove a theory. In case anyone's tantalized the TimescaleDB YouTube channel has some great free how-to videos on setting up TimescaleDB and Grafana.
TimescaleDB is packaged as a postgres extension, there's a GitHub project here if anyone is interested to check in on that https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
Timescale is hiring for a Software Engineer (Database Internals) and this could also be a senior-level hire. It's based on PostgreSQL but if the rest of the resume stacks up it's not 100% essential that you've worked on PostgreSQL internals before. Global, remote.
This article discusses how TimescaleDB (packaged as an extension to PostgreSQL) approaches performance improvements, though it's a bit of an old piece and things have moved on with TimescaleDB too. It gives some good insights though. https://www.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-6a696248104e/ There are some more recent articles on the blog about performance and benchmarks if you're tantalized by that one.
If you want some intro info – and you may have found it already – the YouTube channel is a great place to start for TimescaleDB youtube.com/TimescaleDB
(for tranparency: I work for Timescale...)
Agree there... the writer is making a rod for their own back trying to list all databases in a title! PostgreSQL doesn't even get a mention. Though it's a good enough example of the kinds of things to look at and compare.
Thanks for the shout-out for TimescaleDB (I'm the community manager for Timescale...)
That looks like a project for next weekend to me... By which time some of this excitement may drop down, it's a shame if folk don't come back to it just because of overload on an unexpectant server!
Anyway, thanks for the work you did on this abstrct you have made a community manager very happy :)
So I was being unclear, the "until a couple of years ago" was referring to divergence rather than a change in license.