I believe Timescale has a similar issue if you’ve enabled compression (and it’s usually too expensive not to). Perhaps the main reason we’re sticking with Influx for the moment.
But we are working on making it easier. :-)
[0] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/compress...
[1] https://victoriametrics.github.io/#backfilling
[2] https://victoriametrics.github.io/#how-to-import-time-series...
[3] https://medium.com/@valyala/insert-benchmarks-with-inch-infl...