How does timescale (a single-purpose database) hold up against single-store (a multi-purpose database)? Of course, timescale is cheaper, but other than that, have you folks compared / contrast against single-store as a TSDB?
TimescaleDB performs quite well. One of our unique insights is that it is quite possible to build a best-in-class time-series database on top of Postgres (although it’s not easy ;-)
There are some challenges with building on Postgres - but what we’ve been able to do is build innovative capabilities that overcome these challenges (Eg columnar compression in a row-oriented store, multi-node scale out).
We also have some exciting things that we are announcing this week. Stay tuned :-)
PS - Where did you find that PDF? Thought we took it down (it was hard to keep it up to date :-) )
PS https://www.timescale.com/papers/timescaledb.pdf is 404