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Citus is Postgres that scales out horizontally. We do this by distributing queries across multiple Postgres servers—and as is often the case with scale-out architectures, this scale-out approach provides some great performance gains. And because Citus is an extension to Postgres, you get all the awesome features in Postgres such as support for JSONB, full-text search, PostGIS, and more.

The distributed nature of the Citus extension gives you new flexibility when it comes to modeling your data. This is good. But you’ll need to think about how to model your data and what type of database tables to use. The way you query your data ultimately determines how you can best model each table. In this post, we'll dive into the three different types of database tables in Citus and how you should think about each.

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