Onder Kalaci

Onder Kalaci

CITUS BLOG AUTHOR PROFILE

Former principal software engineer on the Postgres team at Microsoft. Joined Citus Data to scale out Postgres. Thread level parallelism = perfect topic for dinner conversation.

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PUBLISHED ARTICLES
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What’s new in the Citus 10.2 extension to Postgres

Written by By Onder Kalaci | September 17, 2021 Sep 17, 2021

Citus 10.2 is out! If you are not yet familiar with Citus, it is an open source extension to Postgres that transforms Postgres into a distributed database—so you can achieve high performance at any scale. The Citus open source packages are available for download. And Citus is also available in the cloud as a managed service, too.

You can see a bulleted list of all the changes in the CHANGELOG on GitHub. This post is your guide to what’s new in Citus 10.2, including some of these headline features.

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Sharding Postgres on a single Citus node, how why & when

Written by By Onder Kalaci | March 20, 2021 Mar 20, 2021

One of the big new things in Citus 10 is that you can now shard Postgres on a single Citus node. So in addition to using the Citus extension to Postgres to scale out Postgres across a distributed cluster, you can now also:

  • Try out Citus on a single node with just a few simple commands
  • Shard Postgres on a single Citus node to be “scale-out-ready”
  • Simplify CI/CD pipelines by testing with single-node Citus

The Citus 10 release is chock full of new capabilities like columnar storage for Postgres, the open sourcing of the shard rebalancer, as well as the feature we are going to explore here: using Citus on a single node. No matter what type of application you run on top of Citus—multi-tenant SaaS apps, customer-facing analytics dashboards, time-series workloads, high-throughput transactional apps—there is something for everyone in Citus 10.

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