Citus 6.1 Released – Horizontally scale your Postgres database
> <i>Microservices and NoSQL get a lot of hype, but in many cases what you really want is a relational database that simply works, and can easily scale as your application data grows.</i><p>I believe this product is very threatened right now by Google's newly announce Cloud Spanner database[1]. Even with services like this that make scaling "easy", it doesn't yet make it transparent like Google is striving to do.<p>[1] <a href="https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/introducing-Cloud-Spanner-a-global-database-service-for-mission-critical-applications.html" rel="nofollow">https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/introducing-Clo...</a>