With TimescaleDB we've focused on single node performance to try and reduce the need for clustering. We've found performance scales very well just by adding more disk space if needed and more cores. So maybe some datasets are not practical for your laptop necessarily but a single instance on Azure/AWS/GCP is workable. No need for a cluster to get started :)
(Read scale out is available today and we are working on write scale out, hopefully later this year)
With TimescaleDB we've focused on single node performance to try and reduce the need for clustering. We've found performance scales very well just by adding more disk space if needed and more cores. So maybe some datasets are not practical for your laptop necessarily but a single instance on Azure/AWS/GCP is workable. No need for a cluster to get started :)
(Read scale out is available today and we are working on write scale out, hopefully later this year)