Citus 11 is out! Now 100% open source. Read all about it in Marco’s release blog. 💥
Citus 11 is out! Now 100% open source. Read all about it in Marco’s release blog. 💥
Citus is an extension to Postgres that gives you all the greatness of Postgres at any scale—whether on a single node or on a large distributed cluster. Available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
Citus Distributed Database Features
| Citus Open Source Citus Open Source Learn more | Citus on Azure Citus on Azure Hyperscale (Citus) |
---|---|---|
Relational database semantics | yes | yes |
Horizontal scalability & sharding | yes | yes |
Distributed SQL engine | yes | yes |
Distributed transactions | yes | yes |
Extension to Postgres | yes | yes |
Rich data types & Postgres extensions | yes | yes |
Columnar storage | yes | yes |
Compatible with popular programming languages, includes Rails & Django support | yes | yes |
Probabilistic distincts (sketch algorithms) | yes | yes |
Shard rebalancer | yes | yes |
Access controls | yes | yes |
User management | yes | yes |
High Availability & Streaming Replication | no | yes |
24x7 Support | no | yes |
Simple provisioning & easy to scale out | no | yes |
Fully-managed database as a service | no | yes |
Citus Security features in the cloud | no | yes |
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