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Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) columnar compression
Included with Citus 10, columnar compression is now supported in the Hyperscale (Citus) option in Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open source Postgres database on Azure.
Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) support for PostgreSQL 12 and 13
Create Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) server groups with Postgres 12 and Postgres 13, in addition to previously supported Postgres 11.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) managed PgBouncer in public preview
PgBouncer, a popular connection pooler for Postgres, is now part of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) managed service.
April 2021
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) is generally available in new regions
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) includes new Brazil South, France Central, and Switzerland North regions to distribute your Postgres database to horizontally scale queries across multiple machines using sharding.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) same region read replicas in public preview
Now you can create read replicas of your Hyperscale (Citus) server group for enhanced read scalability.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) Basic in public preview
You now have the ability to run Hyperscale (Citus) on a single node with Hyperscale (Citus) Basic, an easy way to be scale-out ready.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) maintenance schedules in public preview
Now Hyperscale (Citus) supports custom schedules for maintenance – specify your preferred day of the week and 30-minute time window.
February 2021
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) audit logging via pgAudit now in public preview
Now in preview, audit logging of database activities in Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) is available through the PostgreSQL audit extension pgAudit, providing detailed session and/or object audit logging.
October 2020
T-digest extension for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus)
Now in general availability, the algorithm used in the open source t-digest extension allows high performance percentile calculations on sizable distributed analytical workloads with improved accuracy.
July 2020
One- and three- year reserved capacity for Azure DB for PostgreSQL-Hyperscale (Citus)
Azure Database for PostgreSQL-Hyperscale (Citus) reserved capacity is now available to reserve compute power for your existing and future Hyperscale (Citus) server groups.
February 2020
Support for PostgreSQL to Azure Database for PostgreSQL—Hyperscale (Citus) is now available
Migrate from on-premises instances of PostgreSQL to Azure Database for PostgreSQL—Hyperscale (Citus) with minimal downtime by using Azure Database Migration Service, which performs resilient migrations of PostgreSQL data at scale and with high reliability.
November 2019
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus)—User role management is now available
Now in general availability, user role management enables management of Postgres user roles on Hyperscale (Citus) server group nodes in addition to "citus" and other built-in roles.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus)—64 vCore compute option is now available
Now in general availability, Hyperscale (Citus) supports a 64 vCore compute option in addition to the 4, 8, 16, and 32 vCore choices previously available.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus)—High availability (HA) is now generally available
Now in general availability, HA allows for minimal database downtime by maintaining standby replicas of every node in a server group.
Power BI now supports direct query for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Power BI now supports direct query for Azure Database for PostgreSQL, both single server and Hyperscale (Citus). With direct query support, data isn’t copied or pulled directly into Power BI, instead queries are pushed down to the database engine and results retrieved.
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) is now available
Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) is now generally available. Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus) scales out Postgres horizontally and is ideal for multi-tenant and SaaS applications that are growing fast, as well as for real-time analytics apps that need sub-second response times across billions of rows.
October 2019
Azure DB for PostgreSQL: Hyperscale (Citus) cluster connectivity functionality is in preview
Support for ‘Allow Azure services and resources to access this server group’ functionality in Hyperscale (Citus) clusters is now preview.
Azure DB for PostgreSQL—Cluster scalability for Hyperscale (Citus) is now in preview
The first scalability feature for Hyperscale (Citus) is now available in preview. It’s now possible to add nodes to existing Hyperscale (Citus) clusters by using the Azure portal.
May 2019
Hyperscale (Citus) is now in preview on Azure Database for PostgreSQL
We’re excited to announce preview of Hyperscale (Citus), a new deployment option for Azure Database for PostgreSQL that scales out Postgres horizontally.
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