Thoughts on scaling out PostgreSQL, big data architectures, distributed systems, and the PostgreSQL community.

Scaling Out MySQL with PostgreSQL and Citus

Eren Başak | Jun 10, 2016
Scaling Out MySQL with PostgreSQL and Citus   PostgreSQL is known for its great extensibility and powerful plugins. One particular category of extensions is Foreign Data Wrappers or FDWs. FDWs allow... Read More



Announcing Citus 5.1: Improving your data ingest speed and experience

Sumedh Pathak | May 20, 2016
Announcing Citus 5.1: Improving your data ingest speed and experience At Citus we want to make dealing with large amounts of operational and analytical workloads easier. Data ingestion speed is key, b... Read More

Scalable Real-time Product Search using Citus

Marco Slot | Apr 28, 2016
Scalable Real-time Product Search using PostgreSQL with Citus Product search is a common, yet sometimes challenging use-case for online retailers and marketplaces. It typically involves a combination... Read More

Introducing Citus Cloud

Craig Kerstiens | Apr 19, 2016
Introducing Citus Cloud At Citus we believe in making databases easier. Key to that is empowering users to scale Postgres beyond the typical limits of a single node. Our latest Citus release makes it... Read More

Master-less Distributed Queue with Postgres and PG Paxos

Marco Slot | Apr 13, 2016
Master-less Distributed Queue with PG Paxos The following post is contributed by 8Kdata. An introduction to pg_paxos Pg_paxos is a database level implementation of the widely renowned Paxos protocol,... Read More

Five ways to paginate in Postgres, from the basic to the exotic

Joe Nelson | Mar 30, 2016
Five ways to paginate in Postgres, from the basic to the exotic It may surprise you that pagination, pervasive as it is in web applications, is easy to implement inefficiently. In this article we'll e... Read More

Citus Unforks From PostgreSQL, Goes Open Source

Ozgun Erdogan | Mar 24, 2016
Citus Unforks From PostgreSQL, Goes Open Source When we started working on CitusDB 1.0 four years ago, we envisioned scaling out relational databases. We loved Postgres (and the elephant) and picked... Read More

Interactive Analytics on GitHub Data using PostgreSQL with Citus

Marco Slot | Mar 23, 2016
Interactive Analytics on GitHub Data using PostgreSQL with Citus With the Citus extension, you can use PostgreSQL to build applications that interactively query large data sets, for example analytica... Read More

PGConfSV 2015 Financial Recap

Utku Azman | Mar 3, 2016
The first annual PGConfSV that took place in November 2015 saw a good level of attendance with 270+ registrants, 31 speakers and 9 sponsors. Of course if you missed it you can check out the collection... Read More

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