Data Loading Performance of Postgres and TimescaleDB
Postgres is the leading feature-full independent open-source relational database, steadily increasing its popularity over the past 5 years. TimescaleDB is a clever extension to Postgres which implements time-series related features, including under the hood automatic partioning, and more.
Because he knows how I like investigate Postgres (among other things) performance, Simon Riggs (2ndQuadrant) prompted me to look at the performance of loading a lot of data into Postgres and TimescaleDB, so as to understand somehow the degraded performance reported in their TimescaleDB vs Postgres comparison. Simon provided support, including provisioning 2 AWS VMs for a few days each.