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Built on PostgreSQL, Tiger Cloud combines robustness and flexibility to tame your most demanding workloads, from real-time analytics and IoT data to events and vector embeddings.
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Mar 31, 2026
pg_textsearch 1.0 brings native BM25 search to Postgres. No Elasticsearch sidecar needed. Learn how it works and see benchmarks vs. ParadeDB at 138M documents.
Mar 27, 2026
Peak throughput tells you what Postgres can do in a sprint. Production asks what it can do forever. Those are different questions.
Wildcard queries can reduce performance by 90% in high-volume databases. Learn how SELECT * wastes I/O, pollutes cache, and increases serialization costs in billion-row tables.
Mar 25, 2026
VesselAPI migrated 700K AIS position reports per hour from MongoDB to TimescaleDB—and learned how hexagonal indexing, hypertables, and one struct tag change everything.
Mar 20, 2026
MVCC is great for concurrent workloads. For append-only data, it's 23 bytes of overhead per row that never gets used. Here's what that actually costs.
Mar 19, 2026
Storing sensor data like rows works until it doesn't. Learn why transactional schemas fail at scale and what time-series architecture gets right from the start.
Mar 18, 2026
Takton built Sense Manufacturing on Tiger Cloud and AWS in just 60 days and cut machine monitoring costs by 70% for small manufacturers.
Mar 17, 2026
A Unified Namespace structures your factory data. PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB makes it queryable—and AI-agent-ready—without cross-system stitching or middleware.