How Evergen Scaled Renewable Monitoring with TigerData (TimescaleDB) and Slashed Infrastructure Cost

Written by tigerdata | Published 2025/09/11
Tech Story Tags: evergen | tigerdata | timescaledb | time-series-database | renewable-energy-analytics | postgresql | continuous-aggregates | good-company

TLDRAustralia’s Evergen swapped a costly, complex MongoDB+Kafka setup for TigerData (TimescaleDB) to handle massive time-series from hundreds of thousands of devices. With SQL, continuous aggregates, compression, and tiered storage, it cut Kubernetes usage by 50%+, enabled 2-year retention, sub-500 ms dashboards, raw-data access, and simpler ops—all on familiar Postgres.via the TL;DR App
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Written by tigerdata | TigerData is the modern cloud platform built on PostgreSQL for time-series, events and analytics.
Published by HackerNoon on 2025/09/11
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