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Scaling out Postgres with the Citus open source shard rebalancer
- tschellenbach 6y agoGreat product but not available as an AWS hosted service so can't use it. One area where Azure is quite a bit ahead actually.
- JelteF 6y agoYou can use Azure Arc[1] to run Citus on AWS EKS without having to manage everything yourself. Even though it's not quite as managed as Citus on Azure, it's still a quite lot easier than setting up a whole production cluster yourself. 1: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-arc/data/what-is-azure-arc-enabled-postgres-hyperscale https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-arc/data/what-i...
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- seneca 6y agoInterestingly, the only hosted option was originally on AWS. The company was purchased by MS and it was deprecated.
- mrslave 6y agoDistribution by compound keys and rebalancing when configuration changes (e.g. a new node is added) are features I would consider essential in the core product. Long-standing commercial competitors are doing this and it's really only the last small gap I can see to Citus superseding them.