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How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-15 Cached

This article explains how TimescaleDB's hypercore engine achieves up to 98% compression for time-series data using columnar storage and specialized algorithms like delta encoding and Gorilla XOR, and contrasts it with PostgreSQL's TOAST.

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