Tiger Data
Managed Postgres for time-series and real-time analytics, from the makers of TimescaleDB.
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About Tiger Data
Tiger Data is the company formerly called Timescale, and Tiger Cloud is its managed Postgres service built on the TimescaleDB extension. It is designed for workloads with large volumes of time-stamped data, such as IoT telemetry, metrics, financial ticks and event logs, where hypertables, compression and continuous aggregates let ordinary Postgres handle analytical queries far faster and store data more cheaply. Because it is still Postgres, you keep SQL, standard drivers and extensions like pgvector. Tiger Cloud runs on AWS and Azure with hourly billing for compute and storage, and plans step up from Performance to Scale and Enterprise, with a 30-day free trial. TimescaleDB itself remains available to self-host, with core features under Apache 2.0 and others under the Timescale licence, and there is a self-managed enterprise edition. It is a database rather than a full backend, and its special features matter mainly if your data is time-series heavy.
Best for: Teams storing and querying large time-series or event datasets in Postgres.
Pros and cons
What works
- Fast time-series queries and strong compression on plain Postgres
- Self-hostable TimescaleDB extension
- Hourly billing with a 30-day trial
Why people leave
- No permanent free cloud tier
- Some features use a source-available licence rather than open source
- Extra value is limited for non-time-series apps
Top Tiger Data alternatives
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Neon66.5General-purpose serverless Postgres with a free plan.
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Aiven62.6Managed Postgres plus ClickHouse and Kafka for analytics pipelines.
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Supabase59.6Postgres backend platform if time-series is only part of your app.
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Amazon RDS57.2Managed Postgres in AWS when specialised time-series features are not needed.
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Tiger Data: common questions
Is Tiger Data free?
No, Tiger Data is a paid product. Starting price: Compute from $30/month (checked on Tiger Data's own site).
Is Tiger Data open source?
Yes. The source code is on GitHub at timescale/timescaledb. You can also run it on your own server.
What platforms does Tiger Data run on?
Tiger Data is available for Web and Self-hosted.
What are the best alternatives to Tiger Data?
The highest-ranked Tiger Data alternatives right now are Neon, Aiven and Supabase. See the full ranked list for pricing, platforms and verified facts.