How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design
Get a primer on PostgreSQL aggregation, how PostgreSQL’s implementation inspired us as we built TimescaleDB hyperfunctions and its integrations with advanced TimescaleDB features – and what this means for developers.
At Timescale, our goal is to always focus on the developer experience, and we take great care to design our products and APIs to be developer-friendly. We believe that when our products are easy to use and accessible to a wide range of developers, we enable them to solve a breadth of different problems – and thus build solutions that solve big problems.
This focus on developer experience is why we made the decision early in the design of TimescaleDB to build on top of PostgreSQL. We believed then, as we do now, that building on the world’s fastest-growing database would have numerous benefits for our users.
Perhaps the biggest of these advantages is developer productivity: developers can use the tools and frameworks they know and love and bring all of their SQL skills and expertise.
