Data Infrastructure

TigerData

Postgres platform for time series, events and analytics, formerly Timescale

About TigerData

TigerData, previously known as Timescale, develops TimescaleDB, an open source PostgreSQL extension for time series and real-time analytics, and the managed Tiger Cloud service. It positions Postgres as a database for AI and agent workloads with vector search extensions. Customers include IoT, fintech and observability teams.

Common use cases

  • IoT sensor data
  • Financial market data
  • Observability metrics
  • Real-time analytics

Products and services

Tiger Cloud

Managed Postgres service with time series and analytics features.

TimescaleDB

Open source Postgres extension for time series data.

Vector extensions

Postgres tooling for embeddings and similarity search.

Key features

  • Time series on Postgres
  • Hypertables
  • Compression
  • Continuous aggregates
  • Vector search
  • Managed service

Integrations

  • PostgreSQL
  • Grafana
  • Kafka
  • AWS
  • Prometheus
  • LangChain

TigerData alternatives

FAQs

Is it still Timescale?

TigerData is the new name of the company formerly called Timescale (2025).

Is it PostgreSQL?

Yes, it extends PostgreSQL.

How is it deployed?

Managed on Tiger Cloud or self-hosted open source.

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