why aren't all 9 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
Assertion Supported
Freedman: pgvectorscale is 28 times faster than Pinecone for high recall
“Compared to one of the leading vector-only databases, Pinecone, a PG vector scale is 28 times faster for a high recall scenario.”
Assertion Supported
Freedman: pgvectorscale on AWS is 75% cheaper than Pinecone
“The monthly costs of running such a PG vector scale deployment on AWS is 75% less expensive than PyIncome.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Freedman: Nobody runs RAG applications at hundreds of thousands of RPS
“Nobody is taking rag apps to that scale today.”
Insight
Freedman: New data workloads do not require new database architectures
“A new data workload does not require new database architecture.”
Assertion Supported
Freedman: Amazon Redshift is a fork of PostgreSQL 8
“Amazon Redshift is actually a fork of Postgres eight.”
Disclosure
Freedman: Timescale's insights service ingests 800 billion records daily
“That insights product is actually backed by a timescale service, much the same as any of our customer could do, that has more than a petabyte of data and currently is ingesting, I think last week I saw, eight hundred billion records a day.”
Assertion Supported
Freedman: NYC grew from 11 to 144 unicorns between 2015 and 2022
“From 2015 to 2022, New York grew from 11 to a 144 unicorns.”
Disclosure
Timescale Cloud reaches over 1,000 customers alongside open-source adoption
“We offer both open source software with hundreds of thousands of teams using TimescaleDB, and primarily build our commercial business on our managed Timescale Cloud with more than a thousand customers.”