Jun 2022 Citus Open Source Newsletter

Big news: Citus 11 now fully open source

Citus 11 is now fully open source & includes the non-blocking shard rebalancer. Plus, if your app needs high query throughput, Citus 11 also includes automatic schema and metadata syncing across nodes, so you can query from any node.

Read Marco’s post ⟶

Citus 11.0 Release Notes (new!)

Did you notice the brand new Updates page on the Citus website? There you’ll find the nitty gritty release notes details about all the changes in Citus 11.

Read the release notes ⟶

Video of Citus 11 release party

The first-ever Citus release party is demo-rich. Watch our engineers demo user management, the non-blocking shard rebalancer, query from any node, & cluster activity views.

Watch the replay ⟶

Citus 11 on Hacker News front page—twice!

HN readers loved hearing that Citus is now fully open source. A rich conversation ensued. If you share the positive sentiment about Citus, please feel free to star us on GitHub.

Read the discussion ⟶

State of PostgreSQL Survey closes TODAY Jun 30 @ 11:59pm PDT

Timescale has a new State of PostgreSQL survey out for 2022. There is even a question about your favorite extensions. If you use & love Citus, take the survey & be sure to list Citus as one of your favorites.

Take the survey now ⟶

Building IoT apps with Postgres, Citus, & Azure

In this post, you’ll find an end-to-end architecture and best practices for building a large scale IoT app on Azure—with Citus & Postgres.

Read Manjunath & Sai’s post ⟶

Use Azure Stream Analytics to ingest into Citus on Azure

This step-by-step guide walks you through how to use Azure Stream Analytics to ingest lots of data quickly into Citus on Azure.

Read the docs ⟶

Notes on the Citus paper at SIGMOD

This new post from a Citus community member shares learnings about Marco Slot’s SIGMOD paper and the video about How Citus Distributes Postgres.

Read the article ⟶

From Citus Con: Hacking Postgres authentication with Hathi

In his Citus Con talk, Anthony shows you how to attack Postgres servers using a free and open-source dictionary attack tool he created called Hathi.

Watch Anthony’s talk ⟶

ICMYI: Speeding up sort in PostgreSQL 15

David’s blog post compares PG 14 vs. PG 15 query speeds and dives deep into the sort performance improvements in PG 15.

Read David’s post ⟶