Marco Slot
Principal Engineer at Citus Data
Marco is a principal engineer at Citus Data where he works on Citus, an extension for scaling out PostgreSQL tables across many servers. Previously he worked as a software engineer on Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 for several years, and has an MSc in Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems from VU University Amsterdam and a PhD on cooperative self-driving cars from Trinity College Dublin.
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Distributing queries the Citus way
Fast and lazy
Citus is a sharding extension for postgres that can efficiently distribute a wide range of SQL queries. It uses postgres' planner hook to transparently intercept and plan queries on "distributed" tables. Citus then executes the queries in parallel across many servers, in a way that delegates most of the heavy lifting back to postgres.
Within Citus, we distinguish between several types of SQL...
Apr 20 2018