Citus Newsletter

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

Our new team member Claire Giordano (who I helped to recruit) got to write her first Citus blog post with the 6.2 release. Just after publishing, it saw some great pick-up and discussion on Hacker News. In Claire’s post, you can find a bit of the back story on some of our goals for Citus as well as key improvements:

• Expanded SQL Coverage
• Pg_stat_statements support
• Reduced query planning time
• Serial support on your distribution column
• Much much more

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Scaling out complex SQL transactions in multi-tenant apps on Postgres

Distributed databases often require you to give up SQL and ACID transactions as a trade-off for scale. Citus is a different kind of distributed database. As an extension to PostgreSQL, Citus can leverage PostgreSQL’s internal logic to distribute more sophisticated data models. Read Now → 

Postgres at Any Scale [video]

One of team members, Will Leinweber, gave a talk this year at RailsConf on scaling your Postgres database. In it you’ll find times for any stage of scale from small, to medium, to big data. Watch Now →