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Introduction : For many organizations around the world, the capture of consumption data is a common yet critical requirement. Some of these organizations struggle to manage the sheer volumes of data that they must capture and process. No wonder! We conservatively estimate that there would petabytes of such data globally and it is likely growing at...

Big news in the Postgres world: PostgreSQL 16 was released just over 2 weeks ago. And today we're announcing that Postgres 16 is generally available for production workloads on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. That’s right, in production: this announcement is not just a preview of Postgres 16 support.  Whether you need to provision a new distribu...

Distributed PostgreSQL has become a hot topic. Several distributed database vendors have added support for the PostgreSQL protocol as a convenient way to gain access to the PostgreSQL ecosystem. Others (like us) have built a distributed database on top of PostgreSQL itself. For the Citus database team, distributed PostgreSQL is primarily about ach...

One of the top Citus features is the ability to run PostgreSQL at any scale, on a single node as well as a distributed database cluster. As your application needs to scale, you can add more nodes to the Citus cluster, rebalance existing data to the new Postgres nodes, and seamlessly scale out. However, these operations require manual intervention:...

This post by Gurkan Indibay about the django-multitenant library was originally published on the Citus Open Source Blog.   If you’re building a software application that serves multiple tenants, you may have already encountered the challenges of managing and isolating tenant-specific data. That’s where the django-multitenant library comes in. This...

Today, we are thrilled to announce the public preview of data encryption at rest with customer managed keys for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL. Data stored in your Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL cluster is automatically and seamlessly encrypted with keys managed by Microsoft (service-managed keys). Optionally, you can now choose to add an additi...

We are super excited to announce the public preview of Data API builder. A new feature that allows customers to instantly and securely build a GraphQL API for Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL and Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL.   A quick look at Data API Builder  With Data API Builder, database objects can be exposed via REST or GraphQL endpoints so...

Microsoft recently announced the introduction of Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, a distributed relational database, making Azure the first cloud platform to offer support for both relational and NoSQL (non-relational) data in a single database service. This means Azure Cosmos DB developers now have ultimate flexibility when building cloud-native ap...

As you may have heard, we recently made PostgreSQL 15 generally available in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL within just 1 week of the PostgreSQL 15 release. The Postgres 15 version is available for you whether you need to create a new cluster in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, or upgrade your existing cluster. (Note: you can do in-place major versi...

Big news from the Postgres and Citus team here at Microsoft! Just 1 week after PostgreSQL 15 was released, PostgreSQL 15 GA is generally available in the portal for the Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL managed service—in all Azure regions. Whether you need to provision new clusters in Azure Cosmos DB for Postgres—or upgrade your existing database clu...