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Freedman: Timescale outperforms vanilla Postgres, InfluxDB, and AWS Timestream
“In fact, not only is Timescale a better database for time series than vanilla Postgres, including compared to both Amazon's RDS and Aurora, but it is also better than custom-built proprietary time series databases like InfluxDB and AWS Timestream, even with th…”
Mike Freedman Sep 25, 2024 ▶ 6:08 Turbocharging Postgres for Time Series & Vectors — Timescale CTO Mike Freedman | Data Driven NYC
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Stewart: CockroachDB beats Amazon Aurora heads-up in single data centers
“We're still winning heads up versus Amazon Aurora in single data centers.”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 38:47 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Stewart: Amazon Aurora's single master limits write scaling and creates downtime risk
“If you're, if you have a lot of rights, they're still going to a single master. They didn't rewrite the execution engine. So if that master goes down, your apps offline, if you want to scale your rights, you're going to have to get a larger and larger master m…”
Nate Stewart Aug 5, 2020 ▶ 14:42 Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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CockroachDB's regional cluster architecture closely mirrors Amazon Aurora
“This is a pretty interesting and common way to run Cockroach, and it's similar to what Amazon's doing with Aurora.”
Spencer Kimball Oct 17, 2018 ▶ 6:55 Ultra-Resilient SQL for Global Business // Spencer Kimball, Cockroach (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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