May 2021 Citus Open Source Newsletter

Demo of Hyperscale (Citus) ft. the UK Coronavirus Dashboard

At Microsoft Build this week, Umur demo’d Hyperscale (Citus)—using public data & queries from the impressive UK Coronavirus Dashboard, which runs on top of Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure. Strong recommend.

Watch Umur’s demo, starting at 17:12 ⟶

How to alter distribution key & shard count

Citus tips about how to use the new alter_distributed_table UDF (new in Citus 10) to change your distribution key, shard count, or colocation properties. Also: how to change a table’s access method in Citus.

Read Ozan’s post ⟶

Citus Columnar quickstart for Azure

Jeff has taken his Quickstart for the new Columnar storage feature in Citus 10 and customized the instructions for Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure. So if running Postgres in the cloud is your jam, start here.

Read Jeff’s post ⟶

New Postgres superpowers in Hyperscale (Citus)

In this post Marco EXPLAINS all the new Citus 10 features, now available in preview in Hyperscale (Citus).

Read Marco’s post ⟶

Postgres announcements at Microsoft Build

Summary of all the official announcements at Microsoft Build about Azure Database for PostgreSQL—including a free 12-month offer for the Flexible Server (Preview) option.

Read Sunil’s post ⟶

PostgreSQL 14 – Beta 1 released

The first beta release of PostgreSQL 14 is now available for download. So many useful new features are now ready for you to test. More details in the PostgreSQL Global Development Group’s official release notes.

Read the announcement ⟶

Citus 10 on the Data Exposed Live show

In this short 8-minute video segment on “Data Exposed Live”, Claire walks you through the 4 Big Things that are new & interesting in Citus 10.

Watch the video segment ⟶

Hyperscale (Citus) lab on GitHub uses Covid-19 time series data

Hot off the press, created for PyCon, this updated lab is a good way to give Citus 10 open source—or Hyperscale (Citus)—a try. The lab uses a sample of the UK Coronavirus time series data released under the OGL license.

Try the Citus lab ⟶

ICYMI: Citus database talk at CMU

Highlights from Marco’s excellent talk at Carnegie Mellon about how Citus distributes Postgres via the extension APIs. Or you can skip the blog post and jump straight to the video.

Read Marco’s post ⟶