T-digest extension for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus)

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Published

Oct 14, 2020

Status

Launched

Timeline

  • October 2020
    General Availability

Product

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Tag

Features
Open Source

Category

Databases
Hybrid + multicloud

Description

Percentile approximation via the t-digest Postgres extension is now available for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus). The open source t-digest extension adds a data structure that allows store rank-based statistics such as quantiles and trimmed means in your distributed Hyperscale (Citus) database. The algorithm used in the extension allows high performance percentile calculations on sizable distributed analytical workloads with improved accuracy.

See all Postgres extensions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus).

Learn more about t-digest and its implementation in Hyperscale (Citus).