Citus Documentation

Welcome to the documentation for Citus 10.1! Citus is an open source extension to PostgreSQL that transforms Postgres into a distributed database. To scale out Postgres horizontally, Citus employs distributed tables, reference tables, and a distributed SQL query engine. The query engine parallelizes SQL queries across multiple servers in a database cluster to deliver dramatically improved query response times, even for data-intensive applications.

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