Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database . According to Brian, Hyperscale (Citus) is a built-in option in the Azure Database for PostgreSQL managed services that focuses on application performance ...

Some key roadblocks have been removed: If you’re using Hyperscale PostgreSQL, for example, the Citus-based tool will automatically shard your data across the nodes you’ve configured.

Currently, there are three main hyperscale cloud providers: Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft’s Azure. We can potentially also consider Alibaba in China as a hyperscaler.

Citus has been making headlines lately.Just a couple of weeks ago it announced Citus 5, the latest version of its Postgres database product, but even bigger news was that it was open sourcing it ...