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Citus Data is excited to announce the release of cstore_fdw 1.4. cstore_fdw is an open source columnar store extension for PostgreSQL that compresses your database tables and reduces disk I/O.

cstore_fdw Changes

The changes in this release include...

I'm pleased to present an abbreviated version of the tutorial we presented at PGConf Silicon Valley on "Real-Time Analytics in PostgreSQL". Please join me on Wednesday, December 9th at 10 am PST for a webinar in which I will demonstrate how to perform...

The first annual PGConf Silicon Valley conference was a big success thanks to the speakers, attendees, sponsors, and Conference Committee who came together to create a lively, engaging experience for everyone at the event. The conference attracted...

The Paxos algorithm is a powerful building block for building highly available distributed systems. Paxos can be seen as a function paxos(k,v) that returns the same value on all servers in a group for a certain key (k), and the value is one of the...

We are pleased to announce the final agenda of keynote addresses for the first annual PGConf Silicon Valley conference. Keynotes will be delivered by Jay Kreps, CEO of Confluent, Ivan Novick, Greenplum Database Product Manager at Pivotal Software,...

Join us on Thursday, November 5th as Marco Slot, software engineer at Citus Data, and AJ Welch, data engineer at Chartio, present the webinar "Scale Out PostgreSQL and Visualize Your Big Data" at 10 am Pacific Time. 

PostgreSQL can empower you to...

AJ Welch of Chartio spoke to us recently about the PGConf Silicon Valley PostgreSQL conference which is November 17-18 at the South San Francisco Conference Center.

AJ, a Data Engineer at the business intelligence and analytics company Chartio, will...

PGConf.EU is October 27th through the 30th and we are looking forward to a great event which is drawing a high level of interest from the European PostgreSQL community. Two Citus Data team members will be presenting:

• Andres Freund will present...

CartoDB’s Paul Ramsey spoke to us recently about the PGConf Silicon Valley PostgreSQL conference which is November 17-18 at the South San Francisco Conference Center.

Paul’s talk at next month’s PGConf Silicon Valley PostgreSQL conference is titled...

In our recent webinar on Scaling PostgreSQL on Amazon Web Services using pg_shard and CitusDB, we received a number of interesting questions, particularly about CitusDB, which transparently shards tables and parallelizes queries across a cluster of...