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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...

We're excited to announce general availability of CitusDB 4.1, which is based on the new PostgreSQL 9.4.4 release. CitusDB is a scalable database with massively parallel query processing for real-time Big Data applications. The release had a focus...

CitusDB scales out PostgreSQL across commodity servers and processes queries in parallel. Many CitusDB users deploy it on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which allows them to easily scale out the number of nodes. However...

We're excited to announce general availability of CitusDB 4.0, which is based on the new PostgreSQL 9.4 release. CitusDB is our full featured, turnkey database solution for fully scalable, highly-available PostgreSQL. A licensed solution, CitusDB allows...

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...

One of the nice things about working at Citus Data is that we get time and budget to work on personal growth projects. A few of us are playing with the Raspberry Pi. I recently got two Raspberry Pi 2's and installed the Raspbian distribution on 16GB...

The first distributed database that I worked on was called CSPIT. The project was led by a visionary architect and involved some of the smartest developers I knew at Amazon.

CSPIT never saw the light of day. On the technical side, we ran into scalability...

PostgreSQL is one of the most popular open-source databases thanks to its reliability and advanced feature set. At Citus Data, we scale out PostgreSQL across many machines to enable queries over large datasets. We are often asked how CitusDB performance...

We are excited to announce the general availability of CitusDB v3.0. Apart from various bug fixes and performance improvements, the major features in this release include:

• Large table joins. We now support dynamic repartitioning of tables to handle...

We are excited to announce CitusDB's v2.1 release, and provide our users with new features that enable them to address a larger variety of use-cases. Some of these new features include:

• Task tracker based execution: Until this point, CitusDB only...