The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Time-Series Data 101

Episode Date: March 6, 2023

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation with David Kohn of Timescale.

Costas, we just chatted with David Cohn from TimescaleDB. Fascinating technology. I think one of the big takeaways that I had was how extensible really good technology is. You know, he talked about Postgres sort of originating 30 years ago, right? You know, we sort of tend to talk about the last decade of change in data, right? And how much has happened, right? And data warehouses and data lakes and all that sort of stuff, right?

We're going back three decades. It was just amazing to hear David talk about how many of the things that make timescale possible in terms of dealing with time series data were conceived of as sort of functionality at a base level in Postgres 30 years ago. Yeah. Which is really cool.

And I also think it just speaks to, A, not only David's ability in terms of how far he pushed it, which, you know, like, it's amazing how far he pushed Postgres. Yeah. You know, without additional technology on top of it. But also,

just to the wisdom of the people who architected the original system so that's what I'm going to take it really is pretty incredible yep 100% I mean there were like so many

lessons learned from this conversation with David first of all it was amazing to hear about all the different ways that you can work with Postgres and the tools that it provides to extend and build on top of that to the point where you pretty much end up building almost a completely different database system at the end. That was super interesting and gave like a lot of foot for thought

and like to go and check a few things about Postgres. But what I also like enjoy, because it's like one of these like rare occasions where we have someone who is really deep into like the database technology, but at the same time, the product side of things. With the conversation around how important the developer experience is for database systems and their success, and how it becomes more and more important at the end like these days and he said something like i don't know like it was like super super interesting to hear that like where performance is like good enough and when performance is good enough the question turns into like how i can become more productive and that's where like the experience becomes like super important yeah So I don't know, that's probably like, just like, let's say part of like the conversation that we had, but I think it's like a great indication of like the whole conversation

that we had and hopefully we will have him back soon again. I agree. All right. Well, thank you for listening. Subscribe if you haven't, tell a friend and we will catch you on the next one.