Modern Postgres for Speed, Scale, and AI

Learn basics of TimescaleDB in less than 3 minutes in this quick tutorial from Fireship.

🔖 Topics Covered

  • What is TimescaleDB?

  • TimescaleDB basics tutorial

  • Timescale vs Postgres

  • Postgres as a vector database

  • Postgres extensions for RAG stack and AI apps

  • How to make SQL queries faster

What is TimescaleDB?

TimescaleDB is an open-source PostgreSQL extension designed for running real-time analytics on time-series data. It is engineered up from PostgreSQL and maintains full SQL support.

Best practice is to run TimescaleDB in a Timescale Service, but if you want to self-host you can run TimescaleDB free from source, or a pre-built container.

What is Timescale Cloud?

Timescale Cloud is the modern PostgreSQL data platform for all your applications. It enhances PostgreSQL to handle time series, events, real-time analytics, and vector search—all in a single database alongside transactional workloads.