# Timescale [site](https://www.timescale.com/) TimescaleDB is a time-series database that is often [[TimescaleDB vs InfluxDB|compared favorably]] to [[InfluxDB]] because of its [[Developer Experience]] [^bausk]. Timescale can ingest [[Prometheus]] metrics (remote write). TimescaleDB is based on [[Postgres]]. [^bausk]: Bausk. _A practical comparison of TimescaleDB and InfluxDB_. Retrieved from https://bausk.dev/a-practical-comparison-of-timescaledb-and-influxdb/ . [[A Practical Comparison of TimescaleDB and InfluxDB]]