Microsoft Corporation acquired Citus Data, a transaction announced in January 2019.
Citus Data operates in Cloud / Open-source databases, is based in San Francisco, California, USA. Microsoft acquired Citus Data, behind an open-source extension that turns PostgreSQL into a horizontally scalable distributed database. Microsoft said the technology would boost the performance and scale of its Azure PostgreSQL service. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Reinforce Azure's open-source commitment and deliver PostgreSQL at massive scale for multi-tenant and real-time analytics workloads.
I am thrilled to announce that we have acquired Citus Data, a leader in the PostgreSQL community.Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President, Azure Data, Microsoft
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.