{"id":14039,"date":"2019-01-24T21:51:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/microsoft-acquires-citus-data.html"},"modified":"2019-01-24T21:51:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T21:51:50","slug":"microsoft-acquires-citus-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/microsoft-acquires-citus-data.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft acquires Citus Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired<\/a> Citus Data<\/a>, a company that focused on making PostgreSQL databases faster and more scalable. Citus\u2019 open-source\u00a0PostgreSQL extension<\/a> essentially turns the application into a distributed database and, while there has been a lot of hype around the NoSQL movement and document stores, relational databases \u2014 and especially PostgreSQL <\/a> \u2014 are still a growing market, in part because of tools from companies like Citus that overcome some of their earlier limitations.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Microsoft plans to work with the Citus\u00a0Data team to \u201caccelerate the delivery of key, enterprise-ready features from Azure to PostgreSQL and enable critical PostgreSQL workloads to run on Azure with confidence.\u201d The\u00a0Citus\u00a0co-founders echo this in their own statement, noting that \u201cas part of Microsoft, we will stay focused on building an amazing database on top of PostgreSQL that gives our users the game-changing scale, performance, and resilience they need. We will continue to drive innovation in this space.\u201d<\/p>\n

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PostgreSQL is obviously an open-source tool, and while the fact that Microsoft is now a major open-source contributor doesn\u2019t come as a surprise anymore, it\u2019s worth noting that the company stresses that it will continue to work with the PostgreSQL community. In an email, a Microsoft spokesperson also noted that \u201cthe acquisition is a proof point in the company\u2019s commitment to open source and accelerating Azure PostgreSQL performance and scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Current Citus customers<\/a> include the likes of real-time analytics service\u00a0Chartbeat, email security service Agari and PushOwl, though the company notes that it also counts a number of Fortune 100 companies among its users (they tend to stay anonymous). The company offers both a database as a service, an on-premises enterprise version and the free open-source edition. For the time being, it seems like that\u2019s not changing, though over time I would suspect that Microsoft will transition users of the hosted service to Azure.<\/p>\n

The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Citus\u00a0Data, which was founded in 2010 and graduated from the Y Combinator program<\/a>, previously raised more than $13 million from the likes of Khosla Ventures, SV Angel and Data Collective<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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CitusDB Releases An Open-Source PostgreSQL Tool That Promises Better Database Performance<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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