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by manigandham 2777 days ago
Not really what I was saying at all.

Timescale adds automatic partitioning to Postgres, a single-node rowstore relational database. This will naturally give you better performance for larger data (whether time-series or not).

This will not approach the performance and scalability of a fully distributed relational column-oriented database like Clickhouse or MemSQL, because automatic partitioning is just one of many techniques they use for fast performance. There is nothing a special TSDB, or TSDB extension, can do that these database cannot already do faster, while providing rich SQL and joins.