Timescale (Tiger Cloud)
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Time-Series PostgreSQL at Petabyte Scale
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Features
40 features across 17 categories
AI(1)
Support for AI and machine learning workflows
Analytics(2)
Visualization and dashboard creation capabilities
200+ SQL functions for time-based analytics
Compliance(3)
GDPR compliance support
HIPAA compliance for healthcare data
SOC 2 Type II certification for compliance
Database(2)
Full relational database capabilities with Postgres
Optimized time-series data storage and querying
Development(1)
Ability to fork database services for testing
Integration(2)
Integration with AWS Transit Gateway for networking
Ingest from Kafka and S3, replicate to Iceberg
Interface(2)
Built-in SQL editor for running queries
Postgres-native access via SQL, APIs, CLI, and UI
Management(1)
Ability to pause and unpause database services
Monitoring(3)
Detailed logging and insight collection
Export metrics and logs to observability tools
Performance monitoring and insights dashboard
Performance Optimization(4)
Time- and key-based partitioning for fast reads and writes
Ability to independently scale compute and storage
Add-on for increased IOPS and bandwidth performance
Horizontal read scaling with read replicas
Product Offering(1)
Free, open-source time-series PostgreSQL extension
Reliability(5)
Automated backups with point-in-time recovery
Cross-region backups for disaster recovery
High availability with automated multi-AZ failover and replicas
Advanced replication across multiple nodes
Point-in-time recovery to restore data to specific timestamps
Search(2)
Hybrid retrieval with keywords, vectors, filters, and ranking
Vector and keyword search on Postgres
Security(6)
Multi-factor authentication and role-based access controls
Encryption at rest and in transit for data security
Complete encryption of data in all states
IP-based access control and firewall rules
VPC and private networking with multi-attach VPC support
SAML SSO for federated authentication
Services(2)
Integration and migration services for enterprise customers
Jumpstart onboarding and integration services
Storage(2)
Row storage for writes and columnar storage for analytics
Hot data on SSD, colder data on low-cost object storage
Support(1)
Round-the-clock production support with 1-hour SLA for critical issues
Pricing
Beta Free
- ✓Up to 2 database services
- ✓Up to 750 MB per service
- ✓Shared compute
- ✓Forks
- ✓Logs
- ✓Insights
- ✓Connections
- ✓MFA
- ✓Pause/unpause
- ✓End-to-end encryption
- ✓Community support
Performance
- ✓Up to 4 database services
- ✓Up to 8 CPU per service
- ✓Up to 32 GB memory per service
- ✓Up to 16 TB disk storage per service
- ✓Up to 5K IOPS
- ✓250 Mbps bandwidth
- ✓1 VPC
- ✓1 IP Allow-list
- ✓Single-node high-availability replicas
- ✓Point-in-time-recovery to 3 days
- ✓Performance Insights
- ✓Basic support (9-5 ET)
- ✓3 cloud SQL editor seats
- ✓2 dashboards
- ✓Relational, Time-series, Vector search, AI workflows support
- ✓Hourly billing with no hidden fees
- ✓30-day free trial
Scale
Popular- ✓Unlimited database services
- ✓Up to 32 CPU per service
- ✓Up to 128 GB memory per service
- ✓Up to 16K IOPS
- ✓1,000 Mbps bandwidth
- ✓Unlimited tiered storage
- ✓Unlimited VPC
- ✓Unlimited IP Allow lists
- ✓Horizontal read scaling with read replicas
- ✓AWS Transit Gateway
- ✓SOC 2 report
- ✓Advanced Reliability and Monitoring
- ✓Multi-node high-availability replicas
- ✓Point-in-time-recovery to 14 days
- ✓Integrations with observability tools
- ✓10 cloud SQL editor seats
- ✓Unlimited dashboards
- ✓Relational, Time-series, Vector search, AI workflows support
- ✓Pay-as-you-go flexibility
- ✓30-day free trial
Enterprise
- ✓Everything in Scale, plus:
- ✓Up to 64 CPU per service
- ✓Up to 256 GB memory per service
- ✓Up to 64 TB disk storage per service
- ✓Up to 32K IOPS
- ✓4,000 Mbps bandwidth
- ✓SAML Single-sign-on (SSO)
- ✓HIPAA compliance
- ✓Security questionnaire
- ✓Cross-region backups for disaster recovery
- ✓Enterprise SLAs
- ✓Production support (24x7, 1 hour response time for Sev 1 issues)
- ✓Named account manager
- ✓Enterprise Expert Services
- ✓JOIN services (Jumpstart Onboarding and Integration)
- ✓20 cloud SQL editor seats
- ✓Unlimited dashboards
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Integrations
8 known integrations