[mfreed]

Hi @benwilson-512:

We commonly see hypertables (time-series tables) deployed alongside relational tables, often because there exists a relation between them: the relational metadata provides information about the user, sensor, server, security instrument that is referenced by id/name in the hypertable.

So joins between these time-series and relational tables are often common, and together these serve the applications one often builds on top of your data.

Now, TimescaleDB can be installed on a PG server that is also handling tables that have nothing to do with its workload, in which case one does get performance interference between the two workloads. We generally wouldn't recommend this for more production deployments, but the decision here is always a tradeoff between resource isolation and cost.