How Evergen Scaled Renewable Monitoring with TigerData (TimescaleDB) and Slashed Infrastructure Cost | HackerNoon

Australia’s Evergen swapped a costly, complex MongoDB+Kafka setup for TigerData (TimescaleDB) to handle massive time-series from hundreds of thousands of devices. With SQL, continuous aggregates, compression, and tiered storage, it cut Kubernetes usage by 50%+, enabled 2-year retention, sub-500 ms dashboards, raw-data access, and simpler ops—all on familiar Postgres.