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Product search is a common, yet sometimes challenging use-case for online retailers and marketplaces. It typically involves a combination of full-text search and filtering by attributes which differ for every product category. More complex use-cases may have many sellers that offer the same product, but with a different price and different properties.

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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 easier than ever to scale memory and processors while retaining access to familiar SQL queries and rich Postgres features. But database management can be tricky even in the single-node case, so we at Citus have been hard at work building the next step in our journey to make databases easier: Citus Cloud, an on-demand cloud service on top of Amazon Web Services available today in private beta. *Citus Cloud is now fully GA, you can learn more here

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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, invented by Leslie Lamport. Pg_paxos offers a master-less (or multi-master, if you prefer) layer that can be enabled directly in the database without the need for external tools or transaction managers.

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