In the fast-paced world of data management, scalability rules supreme and Citus plays an ever greater role. The question now is: How can we see what is going on inside Citus? How can businesses leverage monitoring technology to optimize their PostgreSQL database performance? Monitoring PostgreSQL and Citus Database monitoring is important regardless of the extension […]

When you run advanced SQL in Citus, what’s possible? Which SQL statements work, and which ones don’t? Citus is a PostgreSQL extension that adds powerful sharding capabilities to PostgreSQL. However, every solution does have limitations. Therefore, it makes sense to take a look at the latest version of Citus and learn how to properly use […]

Row store vs. column store – a lot has been written about this topic in the context of PostgreSQL and Citus. What does it really mean and what are the implications? Are column stores “always cool” and “always beneficial”? No, there’s more to it – which requires a closer look. When trying to understand the […]

While sharding is often advertised as “THE solution to PostgreSQL scalability”, it is necessary to keep some technical aspects in consideration in terms of performance. The rule is: Sharding should not be used without a deeper awareness of what it is you are actually doing to the data. It’s important to keep in mind that […]

Citus is a capable sharding solution for PostgreSQL. It solves a ton of scalability issues: these can be addressed using a sharding approach. We at CYBERTEC have used Citus for some time and can wholeheartedly recommend it (check out our services to find out more). Since the need for PostgreSQL sharding is constantly growing, we […]

By Kaarel Moppel: Some weeks ago I wrote about some common concepts / performance hacks related to how you can (relatively) easily scale to a terabyte cluster or more. Based on my experience visiting customers from various industries, 80% of them don’t even reach that threshold. However, I wanted to write another post showing that […]