Building the Best PostgreSQL GUI: Announcing Our Acquisition of PopSQL
Today we are announcing that Timescale has acquired PopSQL, the modern SQL editor, collaboration, and visualization tool for developers and data teams. We're excited to welcome PopSQL’s founder, Rahil Sondhi, and the PopSQL team to Timescale.
With this acquisition, Timescale customers can now query their databases entirely in the browser or via desktop app; easily create visual dashboards on top of their databases; keep a history of past queries for reuse; collaborate on queries with others on their team; and even more coming soon. This integrated experience is available for all Timescale users today.
We will also continue to maintain and improve PopSQL for the PostgreSQL and Timescale community to have access to a best-in-class UI for their databases, whether hosted at Timescale or elsewhere. PopSQL will still be offered as a standalone service to both new and current PopSQL customers (including its free plan) and still support other data sources (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, MySQL, SQL Server, and more).
One of the biggest trends in software development today is the emergence of PostgreSQL as the de facto database standard. Software is eating the world, data is flooding the world, and developers are drowning in data. This has led to a world of overly complex data pipelines. But complex pipelines are brittle, slow down development, and get expensive. The answer to this problem is not complexity but simplicity: “PostgreSQL for Everything.”
