General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) in new regions

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Published

Jan 19, 2022

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • January 2022
    General Availability

Product

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Tag

Features
Regions & Datacenters
Open Source

Category

Databases
Hybrid + multicloud

Description

With the addition of Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) to the East Asia and Central India regions, you can now distribute your PostgreSQL database to horizontally scale queries across multiple machines using sharding. The query engine parallelizes incoming SQL queries across these servers for faster responses on large datasets. The query engine also serves applications that require greater scale and performance for typical workloads approaching or already exceeding 100 GB of data. 

Learn more about the supported regions where Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) is available.