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What is Citus?

It's an extension to Postgres that distributes data and queries in a cluster of multiple machines. Its query engine parallelizes incoming SQL queries across these servers to enable human real-time (less than a second) responses on large datasets.
Citus is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.

Who is using it?

19 companies use Citus in their tech stacks, including Chime, Heap, and Truebill.

Chime

Heap

Truebill

PrimeNMS

Sellbrite

Pex

Astrosat

SmartHR

ConvertFlow

Stackpath

ReAim

Collact

Why developers like Citus

Multi-core Parallel Processing
Drop-in PostgreSQL replacement
Distributed with Auto-Sharding