The New York City-based company has developed an open-source time-series SQL database that integrates directly into the query planner and execution engine, performing low-level distributed query optimizations to improve performance. TimescaleDB natively supports full-SQL, combining the power, reliability, and ease-of-use of a relational database with the scalability typically seen in NoSQL systems. The database is optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, and is deployed across various industries, including manufacturing, space, utilities, finance, and more. Backed by several venture capital firms, Timescale is addressing the challenge of helping businesses and developers make sense of the vast amounts of data generated by humans and machines.