Mar 2022 Citus Open Source Newsletter

Test drive the Citus 11.0 beta

Citus 11.0 beta is out! With metadata syncing in this new version of Citus, you can query distributed tables from any node. Distributed tables, functions, types, sequences, etc. automatically show up everywhere to allow you to load balance distributed queries across worker nodes if needed.

Read Marco’s post ⟶

Mark your calendars for Citus Con: An Event for Postgres

Happening Apr 12-13th, Citus Con is a free & virtual developer event with keynotes by Andy Pavlo of CMU, Umur Cubukcu from Citus, and Magnus Hagander from the PostgreSQL core team—plus 35 more delightful talks. Come learn with us.

Check out Citus Con’s schedule ⟶

How to benchmark Citus & Postgres with HammerDB

All about the new open source benchmark tooling for using HammerDB to measure performance of Citus & Postgres on Azure. With interesting sample results. :)

Read Jelte’s post ⟶

New “update” pages for Citus releases

Inspired by the VS Code release notes pages, we just rolled out this new type of Citus release notes (aka updates). Let us know what you think.

Read the 11.0 beta release notes ⟶

Ultimate guide to Citus Con

Best? Ultimate? Only? Your guide to the 38 virtual talks at Citus Con: An Event for Postgres. Come see which sessions are for you.

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When someone asks about the name of your event

ICYMI this 58 sec monologue was inspired by Alexis Gay and the many conversations we’ve all had about how to pronounce (and spell) PostgreSQL—and Citus. 15.9K views & growing.

Watch Claire’s video ⟶

Video: sneak peek into Citus Con

A video chat about what you can expect from all the customer, open source user, engineering, & community talks at Citus Con: An Event for Postgres.

Watch the sneak peek ⟶

New Hyperscale (Citus) reference page

This new docs reference page for Citus on Azure gives you a list of all the Citus functions—organized by categories like sharding, rebalancing, colocation, columnar, time partitioning, & and more.

Check it out ⟶

Citus on Azure supports the newest minor versions for PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL minor versions 11.14, 12.9, 13.5, and 14.1 are now supported by Hyperscale (Citus)—and are available immediately on all newly-created Hyperscale (Citus) clusters and will be available to existing clusters as part of the next scheduled maintenance.

Learn more ⟶

ICYMI: Tips for installing Citus & Postgres packages

This post from our Citus packaging expert covers topics like package repos, how to download older versions, role of docker, and support matrix for OS releases and versions.

Read Gurkan’s post ⟶