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Please join me on September 9th at 10 am Pacific Time for my webinar entitled "Columnar Store for PostgreSQL using cstore_fdw". This webinar will give you a comprehensive overview of cstore_fdw, an open source PostgreSQL extension from Citus Data that...

We are pleased to announce that the PGConf Silicon Valley breakout sessions and tutorials are now posted on the conference website. Our outstanding Conference Committee has worked through the large pool of submissions and selected the sessions which...

At this year's PGCon, we gave a talk on pg_shard that included a futuristic pg_shard demo: a distributed table with JSONB fields, backed by a dynamically changing row and columnar store. The demo is based on the GitHub archive data, which comprises...

We're excited to announce general availability of CitusDB 4.1, which is based on the new PostgreSQL 9.4.4 release. CitusDB is a scalable database with massively parallel query processing for real-time Big Data applications. The release had a focus...

pg_shard continues to gain momentum as a straightforward sharding extension for PostgreSQL. We’re ecstatic each time we hear about a new deployment and are always considering what’s next.

We’ve been hard at work addressing some of those customer needs...

Citus Data is excited to announce the release of cstore_fdw 1.3. cstore_fdw is an open source columnar store extension for PostgreSQL that compresses your database tables and reduces disk I/O.

cstore_fdw Changes

The changes in this release include...

As a member of the PGConf Silicon Valley Conference Committee, I'm extremely happy with the volume and quality of the talks submitted to the conference. The Committee has been working hard on sorting through the talks, and I am pleased to announce...

With the release of Citus 5.0 in 2016, all pg_shard functionality is included directly in Citus. We encourage you to take a look at Citus, instead of pg_shard which is now deprecated. Citus is available as open source and in the cloud, as the Azure...

Learn how to parallelize analytical queries in PostgreSQL through sharding. Join Marco Slot from Citus Data at 10:00 AM PDT on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 for a webinar which will discuss how to use parallel query execution to speed up queries for an...

PGConf Silicon Valley is a technical conference for the PostgreSQL community scheduled for November 17th and 18th 2015 at the South San Francisco Conference Center. The call for speaking proposals for PGConf Silicon Valley is open until June 15, 2015...