Audience
Developers wanting a tool to manage their clusters, workloads, and databases
About Citus
Citus gives you the Postgres you love, plus the superpower of distributed tables. 100% open source. Now with schema-based and row-based sharding, plus Postgres 16 support. Scale Postgres by distributing data & queries. You can start with a single Citus node, then add nodes & rebalance shards when you need to grow. Speed up queries by 20x to 300x (or more) through parallelism, keeping more data in memory, higher I/O bandwidth, and columnar compression. Citus is an extension (not a fork) to the latest Postgres versions, so you can use your familiar SQL toolset & leverage your Postgres expertise. Reduce your infrastructure headaches by using a single database for both your transactional and analytical workloads. Download and use Citus open source for free. You can manage Citus yourself, embrace open source, and help us improve Citus via GitHub. Focus on your application & forget about your database. Run your app on Citus in the cloud with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$0.27 per hour
Free Version:
Free Version available.
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Citus Data
United States
www.citusdata.com
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Citus Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Citus work with?
Citus works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Citus support in their product?
Citus supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Citus offer?
Citus offers support via phone support, 24/7 live support, and online.
Q: What other applications or services does Citus integrate with?
Citus integrates with: Algolia, Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft Azure, CentOS, Cisco CX Cloud, MixRank, ConvertFlow, CrossMigrateDB, Debian, Docker, Fedora, Freshworks Neo, GitHub, PEX, PostgreSQL, Salesloft, and Ubuntu.
Q: What type of training does Citus provide?
Citus provides training in the form of documentation, webinars, in person, and videos.
Q: How much does Citus cost?
Pricing for Citus starts at $0.27 per hour.
