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CitusSoftware

2 companies

NotionCompany
Connected workspace for notes, docs and projects
mixed

During our initial research, we also considered packaged sharding/clustering solutions such as Citus for Postgres or Vitess for MySQL. While these solutions appeal in their simplicity and provide cross-shard tooling out of the box, the actual clustering logic is opaque, and we wanted control over the distribution of our data.

Notion on why it did application-level sharding instead of Citus

notion.com ↗·2021-10-06Wrong?

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CloudflareCompany
Internet infrastructure company providing CDN, security and developer platform services.
disliked

Citus main SPOF - Citus main was the entrypoint to all Zone Analytics API queries and if it went down, all our customers' Analytics API queries would return errors.

Cloudflare on the limits of its old Postgres + Citus analytics pipeline

blog.cloudflare.com ↗·2018-03-06Wrong?

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