{"id":37531,"date":"2019-01-28T07:21:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T07:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=c7e8e330daeb199ecaffc12a61e597ce"},"modified":"2019-01-28T07:21:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T07:21:15","slug":"microsoft-buys-citus-data-to-boost-open-source-database-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-buys-citus-data-to-boost-open-source-database-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft buys Citus Data to boost open source database in the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/clare-hopping\">Clare Hopping<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">28 Jan, 2019<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p> Microsoft has acquired database business Citus Data in the hope it&#8217;ll be able to offer customers access to scalable databases on PostgreSQL.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it wants to offer developers access to more scalable and flexible systems to deal with larger data volumes in a faster fashion. It says the integration of Citus Data\u2019s software into its platform will allow for more advanced data-led insights.<\/p>\n<p>Citus Data is an open source extension to PostgreSQL that transforms the technology into a distributed database. It&#8217;s available as a fully-managed database as a service, as enterprise software, and as a free open source download, making it flexible enough to integrate into a business\u2019s existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether, Microsoft and Citus Data will further unlock the power of data, enabling customers to scale complex multi-tenant SaaS applications and accelerate the time to insight with real-time analytics over billions of rows, all with the familiar PostgreSQL tools developers know and love,\u201d said Rohan Kumar, corporate vice president for Azure Data.<\/p>\n<p>Although PostgreSQL is always available as a managed service on Azure Cloud (as well as AWS), Microsoft will integrate Citus Data so it&#8217;s available for all workloads, whether in the cloud or on-premise environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe created Citus to transform PostgreSQL into a distributed database\u2014giving developers game-changing performance improvements and delivering queries that are magnitudes faster than proprietary implementations of Postgres,\u201d said Umur Cubukcu, co-founder and CEO of Citus.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is ramping up partnerships with open source businesses at the moment, with last year\u2019s acquisition of GitHub, possibly the biggest open source community in the world. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Clare Hopping<\/p>\n<p>        28 Jan, 2019    <\/p>\n<p>       Microsoft has acquired database business Citus Data in the hope it&#8217;ll be able to offer customers access to scalable databases on PostgreSQL.<br \/>\nThe company said it wants to offer developers acces&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37532,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37531\/revisions\/37532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}