Managed Postgres providers

CrashCart runs on any Postgres 16 or newer. What differs between hosts is whether they offer the TimescaleDB extension, and in which build:

• Community build (timescaledb.license = timescale) — compression, chunk-drop retention, continuous aggregates. CrashCart uses TimescaleDB mode: 5–10× less storage at volume.
• Apache-2 build — hypertables only, no compression. CrashCart treats this as plain Postgres. Most managed hosts ship this build.
• Not available — plain Postgres.

Plain Postgres is fine below a few million events a month; see Which edition? for when it matters. Detection is automatic (TIMESCALE=auto), so you never have to configure anything — this page only tells you what to expect.

Support by provider

Checked against each provider's documentation on 2026-08-29. Things change; the check at the bottom takes ten seconds.

Provider	TimescaleDB	CrashCart runs as
Tiger Cloud (formerly Timescale Cloud)	Community build	TimescaleDB
Neon	Apache-2 build	Plain Postgres
Supabase	Apache-2 build on Postgres 15 only; removed on Postgres 17	Plain Postgres
Azure Database for PostgreSQL	Apache-2 build	Plain Postgres
Crunchy Bridge	Apache-2 build	Plain Postgres
Aiven	Apache-2 build	Plain Postgres
Render	Apache-2 build	Plain Postgres
PlanetScale for Postgres	Apache-2 build	Plain Postgres
DigitalOcean	Listed; build not documented, believed Apache-2	Plain Postgres (verify)
Scaleway	Listed; build not documented	Unknown — verify
AWS RDS / Aurora	Not available	Plain Postgres
Google Cloud SQL / AlloyDB	Not available	Plain Postgres
Fly.io Managed Postgres	Not available	Plain Postgres
Heroku Postgres	Not available	Plain Postgres
Xata	Not available	Plain Postgres
Railway	Not in the default Postgres; their TimescaleDB template runs the full image	TimescaleDB with the template

Among hosted services, Tiger Cloud is the only one that ships the Community build. Everywhere else, the full build means running the timescale/timescaledb image yourself — Docker Compose, Kubernetes, a VM — or a template that does (Railway above, Fly's unmanaged postgres-flex-timescaledb image).

Check your own database

CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS timescaledb;
SHOW timescaledb.license;

timescale → CrashCart will use TimescaleDB. apache (or the CREATE EXTENSION fails) → plain Postgres. This is exactly the check CrashCart runs at first start; the outcome is recorded in the database and stays — see Postgres options.

Found a provider that changed, or one that's missing? The edit link at the bottom of this page goes straight to the file.