Case Study: SAKURA Internet achieves real-time analytics and lower costs with TimescaleDB

SAKURA Internet achieves 94% compression with Timescale

SAKURA Internet, a leading Japanese cloud and internet service provider, faced performance bottlenecks and slow query responses when managing large volumes of time-series data from their IoT and cloud services. Their existing database struggled with the high ingestion rates required for real-time analytics, impacting their ability to deliver timely insights to customers. To solve this, they turned to the vendor Timescale and implemented TimescaleDB.

By implementing TimescaleDB, SAKURA Internet unlocked significant performance gains including faster data ingestion and improved query performance. The solution delivered a measurable impact, most notably a 94% compression ratio that reduced 1396 GB of data down to 77 GB. This resulted in stable performance, significantly improved insert rates, and reduced maintenance costs for the customer, allowing them to deliver enhanced real-time analytics.

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