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Postgres as a base is battle-tested, extremely reliable, and well understood.

Most developers are already familiar with Postgres or at least SQL.

The tooling around Postgres is basically universal.

There's huge value in an option that is literally just "install this Postgres extension and everything works and gets out of your way".

We use TimescaleDB for a handful of products. In several cases we literally just updated a DSN to point a product at TimescaleDB instead of an existing database and the project Just Worked(TM) except hundreds of times faster.

And some of those that we developed on TimescaleDB natively, it was more or less the same thing... give a team TimescaleDB and they're basically productive immediately. There's no learning and integrating new libraries and query languages, no time from ops finding new and exciting problems to solve in hosting and scaling the DB, etc.

We get all this with all the functionality and strong guarantees that Postgres provides.




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