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| excerpt | With data compression, you can achieve a significant improvement in the performance of your analytical queries. Learn how to enable and benefit from data compression in TimescaleDB | |||
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Compression (Superseded by Hypercore)
Superseded by hypercore. However, compression APIs are still supported, you do not need to migrate to the hypercore APIs.
Time-series data can be compressed to reduce the amount of storage required, and increase the speed of some queries. This is a cornerstone feature of $TIMESCALE_DB. When new data is added to your database, it is in the form of uncompressed rows. $TIMESCALE_DB uses a built-in job scheduler to convert this data to the form of compressed columns. This occurs across chunks of $TIMESCALE_DB hypertables.