Scaling PostgreSQL; Citus vs TimescaleDB, Choosing The Best-Fit

Speaker: Robert Bernier

Room: CC 202

Time: Sat 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Format: Hands-on Lab (90 min)

Difficulty: Expert

Track: Development & Dev Tools

Additional Tags: DevOps, Creative

Presenter Location: In-person

Experience: umpteenth time speaking

Description:

Anybody with a few years of experience as a PostgreSQL DBA has heard of the CitusDB and TimescaleDB extensions. For those familiar with repositories and GitHub, installing these extensions is straightforward. But the real question is: which one should you choose?

This session guides attendees toward the best‑fit solution by covering the issues that matter and the underlying reasons for selecting one technology over the other.

Target Audience:

Developers

DBAs

Database architects