Citus Data is a San Francisco-based company that offers a distributed database solution called Citus, which extends the capabilities of PostgreSQL. With Citus, users can scale their Postgres databases by distributing data and queries across multiple nodes, resulting in improved performance and parallelized processing. The open-source nature of Citus allows users to leverage familiar SQL tools and benefit from the extensive Postgres ecosystem. Whether it's multi-tenant applications, real-time analytics, time series workloads, or microservices, Citus provides the power of Postgres at any scale.
By utilizing schema-based and row-based sharding, Citus enables seamless onboarding of existing applications with minimal changes and supports new workloads like microservices. With features such as transparent sharding, SQL query transaction routing, and easy scalability, Citus is an ideal solution for multi-tenant SaaS applications. Additionally, Citus empowers customer-facing real-time analytics dashboards with low latency and the ability to process billions of events in real-time. For time series workloads, Citus offers sub-second query responses and integration with native Postgres partitioning. With its support for schema-based sharding, Citus is also well-suited for microservices architecture, allowing for efficient distribution of database schemas across multiple machines.
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