Case Study: European Space Agency achieves scalable mission data management with Timescale

The European Space Agency (ESA) is an intergovernmental organization of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space for the citizens of the world

The European Space Agency (ESA) previously relied on legacy databases like Oracle and SQL Server to manage data for its Science Data Center. Their challenge was the need for an open-source solution, which led them to PostgreSQL. However, they still encountered performance difficulties when managing their vast collections of geospatial and time-series data.

By adopting Timescale, the ESA implemented a solution that uses automated partitioning via hypertables to efficiently handle billions of rows of time-series data. This approach from Timescale abstracted the underlying complexity, eliminating the need for manual partitioning and significantly improving overall performance and management of their mission data.

European Space Agency (ESA)