Citus: PostgreSQL at any Scale

Citus is an open source extension for PostgreSQL that turns it into a distributed database. Citus can shard or replicate tables across a cluster of PostgreSQL servers and transparently routes or parallelizes queries across the cluster, allowing you to horizontally scale your database without losing any of the powerful PostgreSQL functionality. Citus is especially suitable for scaling Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and applications that require real-time analytics on large data volumes. In this talk, I'll describe the internals of Citus and show you how you can use it to power data-intensive applications. I'll also give a live demo using the Hyperscale (Citus) service on Azure.

Marco Slot is a Principal Software Engineer on the Citus team at Microsoft and is the lead engineer on the Citus extension. He has been working on PostgreSQL extensions including Citus, pg_cron, and pg_auto_failover since 2014 when he joined Citus Data. Prior to Citus Data, Marco did a PhD in cooperative self-driving cars at Trinity College Dublin and helped build CloudFront and Route 53 at Amazon Web Services.