Non-EU vendorDatabase & Data ManagementHeadquarters: US

TigerData: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

TimescaleDB is a time-series database that runs as an extension on PostgreSQL and is developed by TigerData (formerly Timescale, Inc.). It is aimed at sensor and machine data, for example from factories, energy grids and vehicle fleets. Features include automatic time-based partitioning, row and column storage with compression, continuous aggregates, retention policies and more than 200 SQL functions for time analysis. Access is through standard Postgres. You can host TimescaleDB yourself or use it as a managed service, Tiger Cloud.

The Apache 2 edition is open source. The more complete Community Edition is licensed under the Tiger Data License (TSL): free to self-host, but it may not be offered as a database service, although the source code is viewable. Tiger Cloud runs on AWS and Azure, with European regions in Frankfurt, Zurich, Ireland, London and Amsterdam. The listed sub-processors are AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, all US companies. The vendor is Timescale, Inc., doing business as Tiger Data, and is subject to US jurisdiction. Self-hosting keeps the data entirely under your control.

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Sovereignty score

27 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-350
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US, CH, OTHER)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EU, US, CH, OTHERVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	3 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Database & Data Management
Type	Product
Website	tigerdata.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to TigerData

The European alternatives to TigerData come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with TigerData

TigerData is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

TigerData hosts data in EU, US, CH, OTHER. Exactly what stays within the EU — and what does not — is defined by the vendor's data processing agreement and sub-processor list, not by a setting you control yourself; check those documents for the precise scope, including backups, logs and support access.

TigerData is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs TigerData together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to TigerData?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to TigerData include Aiven, ArangoDB and DuckDB. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to TigerData?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to TigerData include DuckDB, Elastic, Firebird SQL, MariaDB and Meilisearch. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is TigerData GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

TigerData is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, US, CH, OTHER. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 9, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): tigerdata.com/legal/data-processing-addendum
Subprocessor list: tigerdata.com/legal/subprocessors
Security page / trust center: tigerdata.com/security

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 21, 2026.

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