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Release notes for Citus 9.3, the extension that scales out Postgres horizontally

What’s new in Citus 9.3, including advances to window functions, adaptive connection management, shard pruning, & INSERT..SELECT.

Microsoft Azure Welcomes PostgreSQL Committers

Q&A with the Postgres committers who have joined the Postgres team at Microsoft. Welcome!

Citus 9.2 speeds up large scale HTAP workloads on Postgres

Citus 9.2 includes performance improvements for HTAP (hybrid transactional analytic processing) e.g. CTEs, aggregate functions, & re-partition joins.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) now generally available

Announcement blog for Hyperscale (Citus), now GA as a built-in deployment option for Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL and OSSDBs on Azure: Latest updates through Ignite 2019!

All the things about Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Hyperscale (Citus) announcements in Nov 2019 from Ignite.

Scaling Postgres DB for better performance - per aspera ad Citus

A customer blog: How DEVersity transformed Postgres into a distributed database with Citus, so their client no longer has to worry about growth.

Citus Data: Founding to Acquisition with Umur Cubukcu

In this episode, Umur Cubukcu joins the podcast to talk about the story of the company from its early days to its eventual acquisition.

Introducing Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Announcing the new Hyperscale (Citus) deployment option on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, now in preview on Microsoft Azure.

Get high-performance scaling for your Azure database workloads with Hyperscale

Azure blog post explaining the benefits of Hyperscale capabilities in Azure databases, including Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Introducing pg_auto_failover: Open source extension for automated failover and high-availability in PostgreSQL

Introducing pg_auto_failover to take care of keeping your Postgres database available. So you don’t have to.

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

We are so excited to share the news that Microsoft has acquired Citus Data. Hear more about the announcement in the blog post from our co-founders.

Two Thought Leaders on Open Source Past, Present and Future

A podcast interview with Citus Data co-founder Umur Cubukcu & open source luminary Danese Cooper, by The New Stack's Bruce Gain. Including a cameo on Postgres, of course.

Citus Data Announces Citus Cloud Database Support for HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance

Citus Cloud is now HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and can be used to manage PHI protected health information & to build HIPAA-compliant apps on top of PostgreSQL.

Why Citus Data is donating 1% equity to PostgreSQL organizations

Blog post by our CTO Ozgun Erdogan on why Citus Data donated 1% of our stock to the PostgreSQL open source community.

Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to Non-Profit PostgreSQL Organizations

The donation of 1% of Citus Data stock is being made to advance the growth of the open source PostgreSQL database in the US & Europe.

How one company’s donation model could show us a sustainable future for open source

From Matt Asay: Citus Data has a novel idea for funding the Postgres open source project, one that just might work elsewhere.

Why Citus Data is donating 1 percent equity to PostgreSQL foundations

The economics of open source are changing. An interview with co-founder Umur Cubukcu on why Citus Data donated 1% equity to the PostgreSQL non-profits.

Citus Data donates 1% equity to non-profit PostgreSQL orgs

There’s open source and there’s open source. Post by Adrian Bridgwater on the Citus 1% stock donation.

Citus Data Talks Open Source Community and Pledge 1% Movement

Part of VMblog’s Expert Interviews, a Q&A with Citus Data CTO Ozgun Erdogan about open source, PostgreSQL, and Citus Data.

Why Donating Equity Can Lead to Greater Innovation in the Open Source World

An IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with Citus Data CTO Ozgun Erdogan on the Citus Data 1% stock donation to the PostgreSQL non-profits.

Announcing Citus 7.5: The right way to scale SaaS apps

New features that make scaling your SaaS multi-tenant database easier, including foreign key constraints from distributed to reference tables.

Introducing Landlord: per tenant stats in Postgres with Citus

With Citus 7.5, we’ve gone one step beyond the awesomeness of pg_stat_statements & Postgres, with the new landlord feature in Citus.

Scaling Postgres at Affinity with Citus

All about why the team at Affinity migrated from RDS Postgres to Citus to shard Postgres.

Postgres Sharding and Scalability with Marco Slot

Interview with Citus Data principal engineer Marco Slot about the Citus approach to sharding Postgres.

Announcing Citus 7.4: Move fast and reduce technical debt

All about the latest release of our Citus distributed database that scales out Postgres. Citus 7.4 goals: reduce technical debt and improve release velocity.

Building Real Time Analytics APIs at Scale

To provide near real-time analytics to customers on billions of search queries per day, Algolia redesigned their analytics API from the ground up. With Citus.

Announcing Citus 7.3

Citus 7.3 is the latest release of the Citus database & includes broader SQL coverage, Tableau integration, the new TopN extension, & more.

Announcing TopN, a New Extension To PostgreSQL

TopN is a useful new open source extension to Postgres, that enables you to calculate the most frequently occurring values of a thing.

Building HIPAA-compliant applications with Citus Cloud

You can now use Citus Cloud to manage protected health information (PHI) and to build HIPAA-compliant applications on top of Postgres.

Citus Data Turns Postgres into a Scalable Distributed Database System

Team at Citus wants to make it so you never have to worry about scaling your Postgres database again.

Why old-school Postgres is so hip again

Postgres is old as dirt, yet over the past five years it has panned out as pure gold.

Distributed PostgreSQL Settling Into Cloud

Citus gives you the horizontal scale of modern NoSQL, without giving up the transactional consistency and SQL of a relational database.

What Happens to Your Database When Your SaaS app Takes Off?

Decision tree for SaaS databases — start relational, start with Postgres.

Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and scaling out without sacrifice

The knock against relational databases has long been: what happens when you need to scale?

Citus Data Closes the SQL v. NoSQL Scalability Gap and Empowers Developers with Unprecedented New Cloud Features for Postgres

Company’s cloud database business sees 650 percent revenue growth over the past year.

Citus 7.1: Window functions, distinct, distributed transactions, more

Announcing all the things in the stealth release of Citus 7.1, the latest version of worry-free Postgres that scales out.

From CITUS Postgres, WITH love

Powering an interactive, web-based historical dashboard with Citus. “Oh, and by the way, our queries got way faster.”

Podyn: DynamoDB to PostgreSQL replication and migration tool

With Podyn from Citus, you can automatically replicate schema, data, & changes in DynamoDB to Postgres.

Monitor Your Citus Cluster With VividCortex

VividCortex announces support for monitoring Citus, a scale-out solution for massively sharded PostgreSQL.

A Fare Cache in a Sharded Data Cluster ✈︎

VividCortex announces support for monitoring Citus, a scale-out solution for massively sharded PostgreSQL.

A Comparison of Advanced, Modern Cloud Databases

Brandur’s analysis of the tradeoffs among cloud databases, looking at the most general purpose, most practical, & most interesting databases. Includes Citus.

Citus 7: Transactions, Framework Integration, and Postgres 10

When we started working on Citus, our vision was to combine the power of relational databases with the elastic scale of NoSQL.

Introducing WAL-G by Citus: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres

Introducing WAL-G, a new version of WAL-E, a continuous archiving utility to make it easy for Postgres users to prepare for & recover from disasters.

Fork your distributed Postgres database with Citus

Announcing the new fork feature in Citus Cloud. Imagine having a full staging environment to experiment with, that is an exact copy of your production database.

Announcing Citus 6.2: a multi-tenant database for a civilized age

All the highlights of new features in Citus 6.2, available as open source, in our on-prem enterprise version, and in our fully-managed database as a service.

The big old reliable elephant: talking about Postgres with Craig Kerstiens

An interview by Federico Carrone with the Head of Cloud at Citus Data. All about PostgreSQL.