Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)

Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by craigkerstiens on Thursday January 24, 2019 @01:44PM (#18991593)

Craig here from Citus. We're actually a bit different than past forks. Many years ago Citus itself was a fork, but about 3 years ago we became a pure extension[1]. This means we hook into lower level extension APIs[2] that exist within Postgres and are able to stay current with the latest Postgres versions.

[1]. https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/03/24/citus-unforks-goes...

[2]. https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/10/25/what-it-means-to-b...

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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by sytse on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:31PM (#18992060)

Congrats on the acquisition. I love that the complete extension is open source and will stay available: "And we will continue to actively participate in the Postgres community, working on the Citus open source extension as well as the other open source Postgres extensions you love.".

As we continue to grow GitLab this Citus is the leading option to scale out database out. I'm glad that this option will still be there tomorrow.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by jaxn on Thursday January 24, 2019 @09:03PM (#18994926)

As a very happy Citus customer, the extension being open source is very important. And at the same time, I hope I never have to manage my own clusters again and who better to manage it than the team that built it.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by cdbattags on Thursday January 24, 2019 @01:59PM (#18991776)

Holy wow! Thanks for the response!

Yep, I love the fact that y'all went the extension route much like https://www.timescale.com/ and others.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by anarazel on Thursday January 24, 2019 @03:00PM (#18992347)

I think Citus was the first PG fork to "unfork"...

(yes yes, I'm biased, I worked my ass off making that happen)

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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by asah on Thursday January 24, 2019 @02:55PM (#18992297)

user here: can confirm.

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