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)
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Authors
- 1. Umur Cubukcu (Microsoft)
- 2. Ozgun Erdogan (Microsoft)
- 3. Sumedh Pathak (Microsoft)
- 4. Sudhakar Sannakkayala (Microsoft)
- 5. Marco Slot (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{cubukcu_sigmod21,
title = {{Citus: Distributed PostgreSQL for Data-Intensive Applications}},
author = {Cubukcu, Umur and Erdogan, Ozgun and Pathak, Sumedh and Sannakkayala, Sudhakar and Slot, Marco},
series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3448016.3457551},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3457551},
year = {2021}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34 | The Design Of Postgres | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00049142315 |
| 63 | Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00038531147 |
| 185 | CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00026072278 |
| 233 | Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses | 2015 | SIGMOD | 0.00023783585 |
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