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The main question is: Did MS want an expert PgSQL team to work on Azure PostgreSQL (and may to create a proprietary competitor to Aurora)? Or Did they acquire C

The main question is: Did MS want an expert PgSQL team to work on Azure PostgreSQL (and may to create a proprietary competitor to Aurora)? Or Did they acquire Citus for its product, to improve and market it further? It feels like it was the first. If so, it means bad news for Citus product as it will most likely be ignored for a while. That will be really sad, as I don't know any actively supported automated sharding solution for PgSQL other than Citus. There is PostgresXL[1], but there isn't much focus to make it community friendly. [1]: https://www.postgres-xl.org/overview/ https://www.postgres-xl.org/overview/

scarface74 8y ago
This is more of a competitor to Redshift than Aurora.
- teej 8y ago
  Citus improves the performance of OLAP query loads but it's not an analytics solution first. They say so themselves - https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/06/07/what-is-citus-good-for/ https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/06/07/what-is-citus-good... --- When we first started building Citus, we began on the OLAP side. As time has gone on Citus has evolved to have full transactional support, first when targeting a single shard, and now fully distributed across your Citus database cluster. Today, we find most who use the Citus database do so for either: (OLTP) Fully transactional database powering their system of record or system of engagement (often multi-tenant) (HTAP) For providing real-time insights directly to internal or external users across large amounts of data.
mjw1007 8y ago
I don't think anyone should expect acquihiring an expert Postgres team to work on a proprietary product to work well, because the programmers' skills are eminently transferrable. Half the team would probably wander off to work for one of the other postgres-centered companies (and quite possibly continue to work on the open source Citus code).
- bgentry 8y ago
  Fun fact: the team that built Citus Cloud began with 3 people that came over from Heroku after building its (proprietary) Postgres cloud service.

scarface74 8y ago

This is more of a competitor to Redshift than Aurora.

teej 8y ago
Citus improves the performance of OLAP query loads but it's not an analytics solution first. They say so themselves - https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/06/07/what-is-citus-good-for/ https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/06/07/what-is-citus-good... --- When we first started building Citus, we began on the OLAP side. As time has gone on Citus has evolved to have full transactional support, first when targeting a single shard, and now fully distributed across your Citus database cluster. Today, we find most who use the Citus database do so for either: (OLTP) Fully transactional database powering their system of record or system of engagement (often multi-tenant) (HTAP) For providing real-time insights directly to internal or external users across large amounts of data.

mjw1007 8y ago

I don't think anyone should expect acquihiring an expert Postgres team to work on a proprietary product to work well, because the programmers' skills are eminently transferrable. Half the team would probably wander off to work for one of the other postgres-centered companies (and quite possibly continue to work on the open source Citus code).

bgentry 8y ago
Fun fact: the team that built Citus Cloud began with 3 people that came over from Heroku after building its (proprietary) Postgres cloud service.