Case Study: Captura achieves 5x lower operational costs with TimescaleDB

Skylab - Customer Case Study

Captura, formerly Skylab, is an internet software and services company that provides automated photo editing for professional photographers. The company was struggling with insert bottlenecks, delayed dashboard updates, and rising infrastructure costs while using InfluxDB to handle millions of photo-processing events each day.

Captura switched to TimescaleDB from Timescale to improve ingestion, performance, and storage efficiency. The change reduced database size from 600GB to 40GB, cut operational costs by 5x without even enabling compression, and let the team move from a 64-core, 512GB RAM machine to a 4-core, 16GB RAM setup while getting faster performance.

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Alireza Shafaei

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