Cool!

Is influxdb really seen as a dead end?

I did some work using pgvectorscale and their hosted offering a few months back and the product and the team were a delight to work with. I wish TigerData well.

I guess it’s just another columnar dbms after all?

> The majority of workloads on our Cloud product aren’t time-series. Companies are running entire applications on us... So we are now “TigerData.” We offer the fastest PostgreSQL. ... Our cloud offering is “Tiger Cloud.” Our logo stays the same: the tiger, looking forward, focused and fast... Our open source time-series PostgreSQL extension remains TimescaleDB. Our vector extension is still pgvectorscale. Why “Tiger”? The tiger has been our mascot since 2017, symbolizing the speed, power, and precision we strive for in our database.

Given the logo (and internal company culture around the tiger mascot), I understand where they're coming from, but with the name conflicts (TigerBeetle, WiredTiger, etc) I do wish they'd chosen something else -- like maybe TiScaleDB and give a titanium sheen, do triple duty with the tiger and the Timescale heritage?

In 2017? I thought the NoSQL hype had subsided by then and everyone was excited about distributed transactions -- Spanner, Cockroach, Fauna, Foundation, etc.

That's quite some statement. Boy, would I have loved to live in a world where marketing rhetoric and scientific opinion were easier to distinguish.

One annoying thing is that tiered storage is not available on their Azure offering, and also in general it feels like managed service for TimescaleDB is the unloved stepchild of their offering.

But yes, I hope the team continues their amazing work, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the project develops in the future.

  TigerData is bold, fast, and built to power the next era of software.

Cringe...!!!

Or... you could just have an "ask ai" search field wihtout a job title and career path.