Is there any autoscaling or pay-for-what-you-use pricing? It's not 100% clear, but it looks you essentially choose the instance type you want when using Timescale Cloud.
I understand why you might not want to call that out specifically in these promotional materials, but it's an important consideration when choosing which managed DB to use and when evaluating cost.
What specifically does this mean in practice - "Grow, shrink and migrate your workloads between configurations and plans with ease."
Growing, shrinking, and migrating involve moving to a different instance type, so you have to select a different instance type. That being said, there is very very little downtime (on the order of 3-5 seconds while the DNS resolves)
Interesting point of view - it's certainly always a bit hard to find the right verbage that everyone can understand, but hopefully this discussion clarified things!
Last time I used a traditional hosting provider, I could get a new bare metal server setup in under half an hour. I would hardly call them "pay what you use" even though I could start and stop servers and change the plan I'm on and still be only two to three times slower than doing the same on AWS.
Certainly - I've been seeing a bunch of usage based pricing that price on a different metric (like metrics per second) etc.
Regardless, with Timescale Cloud, if you get a machine, you pay the price for that machine for as long as you use it. So I guess to avoid the confusion, we can call this just paying for the machine :)
By the way, I've recently started using TimescaleDB (past month or two) for processing cryptocurrency trading information and I'm liking it a lot so far. I love that I can use Postgres as normal, but have efficient time-based queries.
My first ever test query was to generate minutely OHLC+volume from time,price,quantity trades. It was pleasantly easy to do:
select time_bucket('1 minutes', time) as minutely,
max(price) as high,
min(price) as low,
first(price, time) as open,
last(price, time) as close,
sum(quantity) as volume
from trades
group by minutely
order by minutely;
I understand why you might not want to call that out specifically in these promotional materials, but it's an important consideration when choosing which managed DB to use and when evaluating cost.
What specifically does this mean in practice - "Grow, shrink and migrate your workloads between configurations and plans with ease."