Citus
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Nov 9, 2025first mention
Sep 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“For example, we have a customer that ingests some 30TB/day”
“It is a brilliant piece of technology”
Multi-year experience working with Cituson “118M Queries per Second on Neki”
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“Citus works this way, and even adds convenience functions for shard migration”
“So with Citus you can absolutely have as many query routers (coordinators if you wish) as you want.”
“OLAP - Citus still wins because of its advanced query engine.”
Caveats and dissent
“it's usually a trap as you can't get the value without using the vendor's cloud offerings”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you 3 mentions
- 118M Queries per Second on Neki 2 mentions
- Neki – Sharded Postgres 1 mention
- DocumentDB – a MongoDB compatible open-source database 1 mention
- Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows 1 mention
- Show HN: PgDog – scale Postgres without changing the app 1 mention
Data: citus.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 12
“For example, we have a customer that ingests some 30TB/day”
“It is a brilliant piece of technology”
“Citus model is also a proxy model, where the proxy just happens to be Postgres”
“apparently it sees a ton of use internally”
“Citus works this way, and even adds convenience functions for shard migration”
“So with Citus you can absolutely have as many query routers (coordinators if you wish) as you want.”
“OLAP - Citus still wins because of its advanced query engine.”
“it's usually a trap as you can't get the value without using the vendor's cloud offerings”
“This is the Citus way and we know it's possible.”
“Citus based, but without the CosmosDb badge”
“Citus comes with a lot more out of the box but duckdb could be a good stepping stone.”
“migrate bits and pieces to pg_lake from hydra/citus columnar”