Citus already scaled the workers horizontally. Now the coordinators too I’ve heard more than once that Citus is not a good sharding technology/architecture because it’s limited to one coordinator. That’s not completely untrue: A single…
MongoDB 9.0 is here. Strip away the marketing around AI, Atlas, and “the best version ever built”, and MongoDB 9.0 starts to look a lot like MongoDB 8.4. Sure, there are some useful changes, but I don’t see a single feature that…
In October 2014, a developer wrote to a PostgreSQL mailing list with a problem. His employer’s open source office required a signed contributor license agreement before he could contribute, and he could not find PostgreSQL’s. Tom Lane…

Plenty of Postgres services end up managed by application developers, whether they like it or not. Some dabble in databases on the side, and some inherited the job when the last DBA scampered off for greener pastures. Regardless, they’re…