How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data

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Author: lkanwoqwp

Date: 6/15/2026

Article Summary:
TimescaleDB achieves compression of up to 98% for time-series data by using a hybrid row-columnar engine called hypercore, which exploits numeric structure, monotonicity, and repetition in the data.