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Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by nhourcard on Friday February 10, 2023 @05:33AM (#34737921)
It depends on your use case. For example, Postgres will hit limitations for large streams of time series data on the ingestion side, and the standard SQL language of Postgres may make it challenging to navigate a dataset by time: sampling the data, time intervals, time-series joins (ASOF join), and these kinds of things are not easy or possible to do on Postgres.

Why not combine Postgres for OLTP workloads alongside another database for fast analytics/time series, optimised to deal with high throughput ingestion and low latency queries?

NB: I am one of the co-founder of an open-source time series database (questdb)

Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by sgt on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:46AM (#34738447)
TimescaleDB
Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by jjgreen on Friday February 10, 2023 @06:48AM (#34738466)
Any thoughts on Timescale?
Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by globuous on Friday February 10, 2023 @08:32AM (#34739389)
Unfortunately, you cannot install timescale on an rds, or I believe , other managed Postgres services : https://stackoverflow.com/a/67712962.
Re:Building a Cloud Database from Scratch: Why We Moved from... by sgt on Saturday February 11, 2023 @05:36AM (#34751124)
https://www.timescale.com/ - they offer this as part of Timescale Cloud