Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and Scaling Without Compromise

Re:Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and Scaling Without Compromise by lobster_johnson on Thursday November 16, 2017 @02:34PM (#15715766)

Looks awesome! But it seems that this is AWS only. For companies on Google Cloud, will you be offering a GCP version?

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Re:Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and Scaling Without Compromise by craigkerstiens on Thursday November 16, 2017 @02:38PM (#15715799)

We're always continuing to evaluate other cloud providers to run our fully managed database as a service on (so stay tuned...) That said, because Citus the extension is open source as well as licensed for the enterprise version you can take it and run it yourself today on GCP or Azure or any other cloud of your choosing. And in fact we do have a number of customers running and managing Citus themselves on top of GCP.

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Re:Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and Scaling Without Compromise by lobster_johnson on Thursday November 16, 2017 @02:51PM (#15715937)

Thanks. I know it's open source, but Citus Cloud isn't, so presumably you don't get the extra functionality -- backups, replicas ("followers"), snapshots etc.

We are going to use CloudSQL once it exits beta, but it's a fairly conservative Postgres implementation (single node with read slaves), and you can't install third-party extensions (Citus is not available).

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Re:Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and Scaling Without Compromise by craigkerstiens on Thursday November 16, 2017 @02:53PM (#15715959)

Yeah, fully understand. With any luck we have a better option for you soon :)

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Re:Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and Scaling Without Compromise by samk117 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:01PM (#15716575)

Yes, GCP would be extremely desirable.

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