CitusDB open-sourced

Citus Data has announcedthat its CitusDBdistributed database has been released, under an open-source license(AGPLv3),as a PostgreSQL extension. "First, Citus 5.0 now fully uses thePostgreSQL extension APIs. In other words, Citus becomes the firstdistributed database in the world that doesn't fork the underlyingdatabase. This means Citus users can immediately benefit from new featuresin PostgreSQL, such as semi-structured data types (json, jsonb), UPSERT, orwhen 9.6 arrives no more full table vacuums. Also, users can keep workingwith their existing Postgres drivers and tools."