TimescaleDB
PostgreSQL extension for time-series data and fast real-time analytics.
Building on it: what may you do?
Short answers based on the licence, for the version in the catalog.
- B1 Change the code for internal use in your company Yes Yes. Keep the licence notices.
- B2 Build your own product or service on top and offer it to customers as SaaS Yes Yes. You don't have to share your code.
- B3 Make a closed-source derivative and sell or distribute it Yes Yes, even closed. The licence and copyright notices must ship with it.
- B4 Use the project's name and trademark No No, not without permission. The licence covers the code, not the name or logo.
Keep in mind
- Open core: parts of the project (often an ee/ or enterprise folder) are under a separate commercial licence and may not be changed or used freely.
- Contributing back to the project requires signing a Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
- There is a licence note for this product (e.g. parts under another licence or version-specific terms): read it and check the licence of the exact version you use.
This is guidance, not legal advice. Check with a lawyer before deciding.
The licence in brief
Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)
Permissive licence with a patent grant. Keep the licence and NOTICE files and mark changed files when redistributing.
Open core: tsl/ is under a separate commercial licence. The rest of the code is Apache-2.0. Check which parts you use.
This is guidance, not legal advice (inte juridisk rådgivning). Check with a lawyer before deciding.
Facts
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Licence type
- Permissive
- Open core
- Yes – some features need a paid edition
- GitHub stars
- 23.6k
- Latest activity
- Deployment
- Server
- Login/SSO
- Unknown
- API
- Unknown
- Multi-tenant
- Unknown
- EU vendor
- Unknown
- Source code
- github.com/timescale/timescaledb
- Source
- GitHub API, fetched 2026-10-03
Licence analysis per use case
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