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title: IoT, Financial & Analytics | Tiger Data Docs
description: Explore use cases in IoT, finance, and business analytics
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**Module:** Tiger Data 101 → TimescaleDB Core Use Cases\
**Section:** Core Use Cases\
**Estimated time:** 8–10 minutes total (this page: \~3 minutes)

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## Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

- **Identify** key use case categories where TimescaleDB excels
- **Analyze** business problems and **determine** if TimescaleDB is appropriate
- **Evaluate** specific use cases and **explain** how TimescaleDB features address challenges
- **Apply** patterns from one use case to similar scenarios

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## IoT & Sensors

**The challenge:** Thousands of devices generating readings every few seconds—millions of rows per day, per deployment.

**How TimescaleDB helps:**

- hypertables absorb high-velocity writes efficiently
- hypercore compression dramatically reduces historical storage
- Continuous Aggregates power real-time dashboards without scanning raw rows
- Standard SQL makes it easy to JOIN sensor readings with device metadata

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## Financial Data

**The challenge:** Markets generate enormous volumes with strict latency requirements. Every data point must be preserved for backtesting, audits, compliance.

**How TimescaleDB helps:**

- hypertables handle high-frequency tick ingestion
- Continuous Aggregates generate OHLC candles at multiple resolutions automatically
- hypercore keeps years of tick history queryable at a fraction of the cost
- Full SQL enables complex analytics without a separate analytics layer

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## Analytics & Reporting

**The challenge:** Business intelligence on time-series events (clickstreams, transactions, user activity) needs to be fast and always fresh, without expensive nightly batch jobs.

**How TimescaleDB helps:**

- Continuous Aggregates replace nightly ETL with auto-refreshing rollups
- Hierarchical CAGGs mean each granularity only reads from the next finer level
- Time-windowed analytics are natural in SQL

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[**Industrial, APM & Infrastructure** — Learn about the remaining use cases that power production systems.](/learn/tiger-data-academy/tiger-data-101/core-use-cases/industrial-apm-and-infrastructure/index.md)