I concur, the tone is very off-putting.

I thought about that, but, but it’s not the comparison of the second word, it’s the strength of the first. Read this list:

* Tiger Shark * Tiger Beetle * Tiger Data * Tiger Games * Tiger Woods * Tiger Attack * Tiger Snake * Wild Tiger

Only one stands out as not like the others. Tiger is too strong a word. The second word disappears.

They learned something and wanted to share.

Did you try Slack?

Exactly!

"The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed" - William Gibson

You'd be surprised. Tigris is the latinized version of the name of the river in ancient Greek (τίγρης) which also means tiger in ancient Greek.

The common underlying etymology is an even older into-european term translated roughly as "sharp" or "pointy" (in the case of the tiger I guess referring to the teeth).

From a biblical etymology page:

The name Tigris shares its root with the word "tiger" (more precise: the word "tiger" and the name Tigris are identical in Greek). That means that in deep antiquity the tiger and the Tigris had signature qualities that were comparable and from which both derived their name. The word tiger and the identical name Tigris both come from the Avestan word tighri, which means arrow, or the more general tigra, which means sharp or pointed.

We only care for them to the degree they do "time series things".

Not for AI or other bs "pivots"

Not the case!

Every major release of InfluxDB have been a rewrite.

While 3. looks impressive, it seems like most of the interesting features are closed source, so not a 1:1 replacement for version 1.

InfluxDB Edge is open-source, but you need to depend on InfluxDB Community which is free, but closed source, to get things like include functionality like a compactor, which will add capabilities for deletes and re-organizing files to optimize for queries on longer time ranges.

They also need to resurrect all their old 1.* Client libraries for 3.*.

I love InfluxDB, but I’m not hopeful for its future.

No joke: We've had Influx customers come to us and say that migrating from Influx 1.x to Timescale was easier than migrating from 1.x to 2.x

I've been burned by influxdb abandoning their old versions one too many times and will never consider it for anything ever again.

Tigers are great climbers.

yet they do data.

But you can scale a tiger

It depends on which benchmarks you use.

"ClickBench evaluates databases using a single table of clickstream data, representative of workloads like web analytics, BI, and log aggregation. It also favors full-table large scans and large-scale aggregations on denormalized data.

Real-time analytics inside applications is different and needs a new benchmark." [0]

This is why we published RTABench. [1]

We believe that it is more representative of real-time analytical workloads.

[0] https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/benchmarking-databases-for-re...

[1] https://rtabench.com/

I'd argue we do okay, but of course it's Clickhouses own benchmark it's hard to outperform them there. It's also not apples to apples. Clickhouse has much less transactional guarantees and isn't postgres SQL compatible. The great thing about Timescale is that you only need one DB for all your analytics and transactional needs. Combined with pgvector postgres also handles search quite well.

In a way Timescale is just postgres on steroids. Sure if you really know your use-case well, are fine with giving up some postgres nicenes, are willing to learn a new query language and are fine with using and syncing multiple data stores you'll outperform timescale. But I think it is still really cool to see how close you can get with essentially just a better postgres.

DuckDB seems to be the most interesting there.

Yes, TigerData aka Timescale tried to make a fuss a few years ago comparing Clickhouse and TimescaleDB, but they failed.

It's all relative¹.

1: https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products/2018/11/10...

Companies with much in way of HR are even worse

Meh, it's just a bit of fun. While I don't lean too much into it myself, it's a good way of finding a company where all the grumpy hermits have self-selected themselves away.

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