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We use TimescaleDB with databases between 1-100 million rows (small by some standards, but certainly not tiny) - I love it!

- we use Postgres as our main database, so being able to keep out time-series data in the same place is a big win

- perhaps because because it's a Postgres extension, the learning curve is small

- it keeps timerange-constrained queries over our event data super fast, because it knows which chunks to search across

- deleting old data (e.g. for a data retention policy) is instantaneous, as TimescaleDB just deletes the physical files that back the timerange being deleted

- it has some nice functions built-in, like `time_bucket_gapfill`. Yes, you could write your own functions to do this, but it's nice to have maintained, tested functions available OOTB




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