Time-Series Data at Scale with Citus and TimescaleDB
This architecture handles billions of time-series data points while maintaining query performance for both real-time and historical analysis.
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This architecture handles billions of time-series data points while maintaining query performance for both real-time and historical analysis.
Combining Citus's distributed query power with rollup tables and caching enables dashboards that handle millions of events per second.
When two distributed tables share the same distribution column and colocation group, their corresponding shards are placed on the same worker node.
Understanding these query patterns helps you leverage Citus effectively for high-performance distributed PostgreSQL applications.
Reference tables eliminate network round-trips for joins, significantly improving query performance in distributed setups.
Understanding this architecture helps you make informed decisions about data modeling and query optimization in your distributed PostgreSQL deployments.
Hyperscale uses the Citus extension to create a distributed database: Coordinator : Routes queries, stores metadata Workers : Store data shards, execute…