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Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB

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Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB

@TigerDatabase

Creators of @TimescaleDB. The fastest PostgreSQL cloud platform for time series, real-time analytics, and vector workloads. github.com/timescale

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Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB
@TigerDatabase
Jun 17, 2025
🐯 @TimescaleDB is now TigerData! 🚀 When we launched Timescale, the top Hacker News comment said it was “a bad idea.” PostgreSQL wasn’t supposed to be fast. Or scalable. Or useful for time-series. 8 years later: -2,000 customers -8-digit ARR -Most workloads aren’t even
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Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB
@TigerDatabase
Oct 30, 2025
Processing $500M+ in daily trading volume, @orca_so is a premier DEX on Solana. At that scale, infrastructure becomes make-or-break. Their challenge: Handle Solana's transaction firehose, execute complex CLMM pricing calculations, and serve sub-second analytics—all without
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Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB
@TigerDatabase
Jul 14, 2025
👀 Spotted in the wild: TigerData on the big screen Our Times Square billboard is officially live — and yes, there’s still time to score free Tiger merch just by snapping a pic 📸 Here’s the deal: 1️⃣ Head to Times Square 2️⃣ Find us at: 📍1500 Broadway (between 43rd & 44th,
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Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB
@TigerDatabase
Jun 20, 2025
TimescaleDB to the Rescue: From 11 Seconds to 0.02 Seconds⚡ When you're dealing with billions of rows and need real-time statistics, traditional databases can leave you waiting...and waiting. Here's a real-world use case from one of our users, @Sarvendev 🚀: He was stuck with
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Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB
@TigerDatabase
Jul 14, 2025
📸 Times Square Giveaway! Today’s the day! 🎉 Spotted our billboard in NYC? That’s your chance to win exclusive Tiger merch 🐯👕 Here’s how to enter: ✅ Snap a photo with our Times Square billboard (you must be in the pic!) ✅ Post it on your favorite social platform ✅ Tag
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@TigerDatabase
Aug 19, 2025
“We tried to replicate what TimescaleDB does—behind the scenes—in MongoDB. It sort of worked… but also didn’t.” — Lead engineer @ Evergen They wired together Kafka, daily backfills, and one-day buckets. All just to make MongoDB usable for time-series. Then they switched to
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@TigerDatabase
Sep 9, 2025
🚀 Introducing Direct Compress in TimescaleDB (Tech Preview) Your data is constantly growing. Traditional compression slows ingestion, adds complexity, and delays savings. With Direct Compress, TimescaleDB now compresses data as it’s ingested, eliminating background jobs and
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Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB
@TigerDatabase
Aug 21, 2025
It’s mat (@cevianNY), principal eng at @tigerdatadb. I’ve got the mic for a bit. Thought to share what we’ve been building. I’ve been thinking about why LLMs are bad at text-to-sql. Short answer: no context 🧵 Compared to developers, LLMs are more handicapped without context:
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Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB
@TigerDatabase
Nov 6, 2025
In the Agent Test Kitchen, we let AI cook. Build, break, and demo your wildest LLM ideas with Tiger Data. NYC. One night. Infinite chaos (the good kind). luma.com/9oj7k21h?tk=3k… #AIAgents #DataScience #BuildInPublic #HackNight #ny
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Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB
@TigerDatabase
Jul 31, 2025
Read on @InfoQ: Detailed coverage of how @Cloudflare uses TimescaleDB, in an article by Renato Losio Cloudflare Chooses PostgreSQL Extension Over Specialized OLAP for 100K Row/Second Analytics:
Cloudflare Chooses PostgreSQL Extension over Specialized OLAP for 100K Row/Second Analytics
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