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by enordstr 2871 days ago
Fellow Timescaler here. Thanks for the feedback. While we do not directly compare ingestion protocol and specific features, like continuous queries and retention polices (something I guess we could add), we do compare echosystems and third-party tools support, including ingestion (e.g., Kafka, Hibernate) and visualization (e.g., Tableau, Grafana). In fact, the developer behind the Grafana PostgreSQL data source is also a Timescaler, and an upcoming version of the data source will have an improved query builder and first-class TimescaleDB support.

Finally, I can assure you that this is more than a few input scripts. In fact, the project is thousands of lines of C code (if that matters) that implement automatic partitioning, query optimizations, and much more. Our code is open source here: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb

We have other blog posts (http://blog.timescale.com) and system documentation (http://docs.timescale.com) that explain what we're doing if you're interested in learning more about the details.