Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)

Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by scarface74 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @01:58PM (#18991769)

And this is a benefit to prevent lock-in. Amazon’s OLAP database, Redshift, is protocol compliant with Postgres. Even if you won’t get the performance benefits of Redshift if you move to a standard Postgres, at least you don’t have to change your code.

Now you can move to Azure without having to change your code.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by Someone on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:52PM (#18993870)

That doesn’t really prevent lock-in. You may not be locked in now, but that compatibility can end whenever Amazon wants it to end.

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Re:Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11) by scarface74 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:09PM (#18993993)

If that compatibility ends, it might as well be a new product. Every client that connects to Redshift uses a standard Postgres driver.

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