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Citus Data is excited to announce the release of cstore_fdw 1.4. 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...

One of the upcoming features in PostgreSQL 9.5 is foreign table inheritance, which offers a suite of new possibilities for users of foreign data wrappers. An exciting possibility is that you will be able to create a single table in which recent data...

We received a number of interesting questions during this week's webinar entitled “Columnar Store for PostgreSQL Using cstore_fdw”. We wanted to elaborate on a few of them.

“Is it possible/practical to move cstore-tables between servers such as on...

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...

In this post I will present my findings that show a 6x compression of PostgreSQL JSONB data using the cstore_fdw extension. Cstore_fdw is an open source PostgreSQL extension for reducing the storage footprint and speeding up analytical queries. Cstore_fdw...

We’re excited to release CitusDB 4.0, pg_shard 1.1, and cstore 1.2! These products extend PostgreSQL for scaling out and high performance.

Now that our new releases are out, we wanted to answer two questions that we continuously hear from our users...

We recently attended pgDaySF, the one-day PostgreSQL event organized by the San Francisco PostgreSQL User Group and part of the bigger FOSS4G conference. The event was very well attended, and we were excited by the content of several presentations...

Citus Data is excited to announce the release of cstore_fdw 1.2, which is available on GitHub at https://github.com/citusdata/cstore_fdw. Cstore_fdw is Citus Data’s open source columnar store extension for PostgreSQL.

The changes in this release include...

PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open-source databases thanks to its reliability and advanced feature set. At Citus Data, we scale out PostgreSQL across many machines to enable queries over large datasets. We are often asked how CitusDB performance...

We are excited to announce the release of cstore_fdw 1.1, Citus Data’s open source columnar store extension for PostgreSQL. The changes in this release include:

• Automatic file management. The filename foreign table option has become optional, and...