Jason Petersen

Nearly 18 months ago, we open sourced our Citus distributed database and "unforked it" from PostgreSQL by refactoring Citus into a PostgreSQL extension. Seasoned PostgreSQL users likely already know of and use popular PostgreSQL extensions, such as hstore, PostGIS, and pg_stat_statements; however, we realized some of you might appreciate a recap of our journey from fork to extension and beyond.

pg_shard continues to gain momentum as a straightforward sharding extension for PostgreSQL. We’re ecstatic each time we hear about a new deployment and are always considering what’s next.

We’ve been hard at work addressing some of those customer needs...

PGConf Silicon Valley is a technical conference for the PostgreSQL community scheduled for November 17th and 18th 2015 at the South San Francisco Conference Center. The call for speaking proposals for PGConf Silicon Valley is open until June 15, 2015...

Learn how to enable real-time analytics on terabytes of data using PostgreSQL by combining analytics and operational workloads in a single database. Join Utku Azman from Citus Data at 10:00 AM PDT on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 for a webinar which will...

I am hosting a webinar on April 29th at 10:00 am Pacific time to discuss the core principles of PostgreSQL database scaling. The webinar will enable attendees to avoid common mistakes that limit future system capabilities.

During the webinar, I will...

Last winter, we open-sourced pg_shard, a transparent sharding extension for PostgreSQL. It brought straightforward sharding capabilities to PostgreSQL, allowing tables and queries to be distributed across any number of servers.

Today we’re excited...

Notice: Citus is now a successor to pg_shard. We encourage you to take a look at it if you need help with Postgres sharding.

Today we’re excited to announce pg_shard, a transparent sharding extension for PostgreSQL. Without requiring any changes to...