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How Evergen scaled renewable monitoring by moving from MongoDB to TigerData (TimescaleDB)—cutting infra use >50%, speeding queries <500 ms, & centralizing data.
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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.