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title: Get started with Tiger Data | Tiger Data Docs
description: Welcome to Tiger Data, choose your path to get started
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Tiger Data delivers PostgreSQL optimized for time-series, analytics, and AI workloads. Ingest millions of rows per second, query terabytes in milliseconds, and reduce storage costs by up to 98%, all with the PostgreSQL you already know.

## Choose your setup

Run TimescaleDB as a fully managed cloud service, install and operate the open-source engine yourself, or run it self-managed with production operations and commercial support.

[Tiger Cloud](/get-started/quickstart/quickstart-5-minutes/index.md)

[Fully managed on AWS or Azure. High availability, tiered storage, observability, and operations are handled for you, with no infrastructure to run.](/get-started/quickstart/quickstart-5-minutes/index.md)

[Self-hosted TimescaleDB](/get-started/choose-your-path/install-timescaledb/index.md)

[The open-source Community Edition on your own infrastructure. You install, operate, and manage everything yourself.](/get-started/choose-your-path/install-timescaledb/index.md)

[TimescaleDB Enterprise](/get-started/enterprise/install-console/index.md)

[Self-managed like Community, plus built-in high availability, backups, upgrades, monitoring, and commercial support. For on-premises, edge, and air-gapped environments.](/get-started/enterprise/install-console/index.md)

Looking to host on Google Cloud? [Explore MST →](/deploy/mst/index.md)

## Why Tiger Data?

**Hypertables** automatically partition your data by time, making inserts and queries dramatically faster without changing your SQL.

**Hypercore storage engine** combines row and columnar storage, queries run up to 350x faster, ingestion is 44% faster, and storage shrinks by up to 98%.

**Continuous aggregates** pre-compute and auto-refresh your analytics, so dashboards and reports respond instantly.

**Tiered storage** seamlessly moves cold data to low-cost object storage while keeping it fully queryable.

**100% PostgreSQL compatible**, use your existing tools, drivers, and SQL skills.

## Keep on going!

Once you're up and running, learn how things work, build your first queries, migrate your data, or configure your deployment.

[Learn](/learn/index.md)

[Understand the concepts behind hypertables, hypercore, continuous aggregates, and more](/learn/index.md)

[Build](/build/index.md)

[How-to guides for writing queries, managing data, integrating tools, and optimizing performance](/build/index.md)

[Migrate](/migrate/index.md)

[Move your data from PostgreSQL, S3, Kafka, and other sources](/migrate/index.md)

[Deploy](/deploy/index.md)

[Configure, secure, scale, and monitor your deployment](/deploy/index.md)

## What's new

Check out [News and updates](/get-started/news/index.md) for the latest features and improvements.