TL;DR: AI gaming company Latitude replaced Amazon Aurora with TimescaleDB for their interactive storytelling platform, cutting storage costs by $12K monthly while improving query performance.
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What is Timescale? Timescale is Postgres made powerful. It enhances PostgreSQL to handle time series, events, real-time analytics, and vector search—all in a single database alongside transactional workloads.

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The Real-Time Data Challenge 📊

Latitude's AI Dungeon platform generates dynamic storylines for thousands of players simultaneously. As their user base grew, Amazon Aurora couldn't efficiently handle their time-series data needs:

  1. Rising storage costs
  2. Degrading query performance
  3. Challenges with real-time analytics
  4. Engineering resources consumed by database management

The Solution?💡

Latitude migrated from Amazon Aurora to Timescale.

"TimescaleDB by itself is what allows for the hypertables, the query performance, and the compression. That's where it's something like $12,000 monthly storage savings."

Key Features: 

-- Example of hypertable creation in TimescaleDB
CREATE TABLE events(
  time TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL,
  player_id INTEGER,
  action_type TEXT,
  context JSONB
);

-- Convert to hypertable
SELECT create_hypertable('events', 'time');

Performance Results

  • $12,000 monthly database storage cost reduction
  • Improved query performance despite growing data volumes
  • Seamless real-time analytics powering their AI storytelling engine
  • Capacity to handle larger datasets as player base expands

For Latitude's engineering team, Timescale delivered the rare combination of better performance and lower costs, allowing them to focus on creating immersive AI gaming experiences instead of database optimization.

Timescale Cloud: For Teams Ready to Go Fully Managed

For teams wanting to eliminate database management entirely:

What Timescale Cloud Offers

No Database Administration

  • Zero management overhead

  • Engineers work on products, not databases

  • No more infrastructure maintenance

Built-in Scaling

Handles growth automatically

  • Scales with your data volume

  • Manages traffic fluctuations

More Cost Savings

  • No need for database administrators

  • Pay only for what you use

  • Predictable monthly costs

*Better Reliability
*

  • Automatic backups

  • High availability setup

  • Built-in disaster recovery

Performance Monitoring

  • Real-time performance metrics

  • Problem alerts

  • Usage insights

Relevant for AI Gaming Companies

Companies like Latitude in the AI gaming space might find these features particularly useful:

Speed: Fast queries with many concurrent users
Focus: Engineers work on games, not databases
Global Access: Low-latency worldwide
Growth Ready: Scales as you grow

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Discussion 💬

Have you faced similar scaling challenges with time-series data? What database solutions have worked for your real-time analytics needs?