Citus 6.1 Released – Horizontally scale your Postgres database
> 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 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.[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/introducing-Clo...