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Citus was acquired by Microsoft so there are doubts about its future longevity given that so many similar promises of ongoing support are rarely maintained. Tim

Citus was acquired by Microsoft so there are doubts about its future longevity given that so many similar promises of ongoing support are rarely maintained. Timescale is optimised for time-series so not sure it's applicable. Point still remains that PostgreSQL lacks a modern, built-in horizontal scalability solution.

coldtea 3y ago
>given that so many similar promises of ongoing support are rarely maintained Microsoft on the other hand is among the best in keeping such promises. If Google had bought it, sure...
- hot_gril 3y ago
  Well let's see how long Google's Spanner lasts. It's designed to support huge-scale systems, and personally I'd be terrified locking a huge system into that.
maxthegeek1 3y ago
Cockroachdb is a common solution here.
- aeyes 3y ago
  It's not Postgres, it only speaks Postgres dialect.
- riku_iki 3y ago
  but it is not pgsql, and doesn't have drop in compatibility..