Microsoft Acquires Citus Data: Creating the World’s Best Postgres Experience Together

We have some exciting news: Microsoft has acquired Citus Data! Read more for perspective on the acquisition from our co-founders Umur Cubukcu, Ozgun Erdogan, & Sumedh Pathak. And yes, we’re already working hard to bring Citus to Microsoft Azure: stay tuned for regular updates. You can also find more info in this post from Microsoft’s Sudhakar Sannakkayala about how the Citus and Azure teams will work together to bring an awesome Postgres offering to the community.
About the acquisition, from Citus Data’s co-founders → 

10 Most Popular Citus Data Blog Posts in 2018, featuring Postgres (of course)

Just in case you missed any of our best posts from last year, Claire has created and curated a TOP TEN list of the most popular Citus Data posts published in 2018. Hmmm, wonder if she used TopN?
Check out the 2018 Top Ten blog posts → 

Contributing to Postgres

If you’re considering getting more involved with Postgres, here are a few tips you may find helpful. And of course, code is not the only way to contribute. Sharing knowledge, giving talks, & supporting local Postgres user groups are all important, too.
Craig’s tips for contributing to Postgres →

Fun with SQL: Self joins

Self joins are handy when you have rows that need to reference other rows in that same table. In this post, Craig uses a fun family holiday tradition to illustrate how easy and helpful self joins in Postgres can be.
More on self joins in Postgres → 

By using Citus, PushOwl keeps on scaling, and handles Black Friday load with ease

Since we first published this story in August 2018, PushOwl has grown their service on Shopify to send more than 50M push notifications per month, a 5X increase—and now serves over 8,500 customers. See why PushOwl doesn’t need to worry about database infrastructure anymore.
Read the PushOwl customer story → 

Short 3-min video: Citus vs. single-node Postgres

In this short side-by-side performance comparison of Citus vs. single-node Postgres, our engineer Marco Slot demos the performance of a 4-node Citus database cluster. And shows how with Citus you can serve use cases you could never even imagine doing with a single Postgres node.
Watch the side-by-side comparison → 

Hope to see you at FOSDEM ‘19 and FOSDEM PGDay

If you are headed to Brussels this week for the annual open source software event that is FOSDEM, and you care about Postgres, Dimitri will be giving his talk on Data Modeling, Normalization, and Denormalization at both FOSDEM PGDay and FOSDEM ‘19. Claire Giordano is volunteering in the Postgres devroom on Sunday, and Craig Kerstiens will be in the hallway track. Some world famous Citus socks will be on hand. ;-)
Come say hello at FOSDEM → 

ICYMI: \watch ing Star Wars in Postgres

In this post, based on a talk he gave at Keep Ruby Weird, Will explains how to watch Star Wars in Postgres. Yes, you read that right. Will uses a variety of Postgres functions in a fun and innovative way to render Star Wars using Postgres.
See for yourself → 

In the news

• Official Microsoft Blog: Microsoft acquires Citus Data, re-affirming its commitment to Open Source and accelerating Azure PostgreSQL performance and scale

• Techcrunch: Microsoft acquires Citus Data

• GeekWire: Microsoft acquires Citus Data, creators of a cloud-friendly version of the PostgreSQL database

• CNBC: Microsoft acquires another open-source company, Citus Data

Will you be at any of these upcoming Postgres events? If so, come find us.

• Sai Srirampur will talk about scaling multi-tenant apps using Django and Postgres at PyCaribbean 2019

• At SCaLE17X, Craig Kerstiens will present “Around the world with Postgres extensions”

• Dimitri Fontaine will explain how to write a SQL query at pgDay Paris

• At Nordic PGDay, Will Leinweber will present: “When it all goes wrong”

• Also at Nordic PGDay, Claire Giordano will present: “Why Postgres. Why This Database. Why Now.”

Is Citus right for you?

Want to explore whether Citus is right for you and your use case? Learn more about the Citus product, check out the documentation, or let us know if you want to book a demo.