Citus: Distributed PostgreSQL for Data-Intensive Applications

Summary: Open-source PostgreSQL extension enabling distribution of data, queries, and transactions across a cluster for data-intensive apps. Describes four workload patterns, benchmarks, and a Microsoft deployment to illustrate scalability and performance of the extension-based approach. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6240
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.9053048e-05
Overall Rank: 4,812 | 66.53%
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3457551

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5,407	Remus: Efficient Live Migration for Distributed Databases with Snapshot Isolation	2022	SIGMOD	5.5242392e-05
5,490	The Case for Distributed Shared-Memory Databases with RDMA-Enabled Memory Disaggregation	2023	VLDB	5.4778129e-05
6,302	Diva: Making MVCC Systems HTAP-Friendly	2022	SIGMOD	5.1215989e-05
7,232	Anarchy in the Database: A Survey and Evaluation of Database Management System Extensibility	2025	VLDB	4.7942933e-05
9,620	Deploying Computational Storage for HTAP DBMSs Takes More Than Just Computation Offloading	2023	VLDB	4.3169852e-05
9,792	Optimizing Time Series Queries with Versions	2024	SIGMOD	4.2818172e-05
9,958	OceanBase Paetica: A Hybrid Shared-nothing/Shared-everything Database for Supporting Single Machine and Distributed Cluster	2023	VLDB	4.2364477e-05
10,025	Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,063	Counting Is All You Need for Instant Tuple Discovery: Enabling Real-Time HTAP in Standalone DBMSs	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,389	Rapid Data Ingestion through DB-OS Co-design	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,677	Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,092	Native Distributed Databases: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,216	Demystifying the QoS and QoE of Edge-hosted Video Streaming Applications in the Wild with SNESet	2023	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,295	XDB in Action: Decentralized Cross-Database Query Processing for Black-Box DBMSes	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
44	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00071838587
156	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00040504295
390	CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database	2020	SIGMOD	0.00024607299
426	Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023594359

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