Citus 6.2: Concurrent index creation and complex queries for multi-tenant dbs

Re:Citus 6.2: Concurrent index creation and complex queries ... by capkutay on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @06:30PM (#14510368)

I wonder how they'll compete with Cockroach down the road. Looks like both projects are doing great work around ACID in multi-tenant environments.

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Re:Citus 6.2: Concurrent index creation and complex queries ... by elvinyung on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @06:41PM (#14510419)

I'm really inclined to say that Citus is better suited for the vast majority of companies, since You Are Not Google [1]. For example, forcing everyone to synchronously replicate using Raft all the time seems like overkill, and incurs a huge latency cost.

Furthermore, I think Citus has a head start on being a mature project, since it builds upon the back of the already-mature Postgres for things like query planning.

[1] https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb

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