[magden]

> You handwaved this away, saying you can just store an entire table on a single node, but that defeats many of the benefits of these sharded SQL databases.

I just clarified one-liners listed under the closing "Cons" section. My intention was not to say that the author is utterly wrong. Marco is a recognized expert in the Postgres community. It only feels like he was too opinionated about distributed SQL DBs while wearing his Citus hat.

> Also, before attacking the author's biases, it seems fair to disclose that you appear to work at Yugabyte.

I'm sorry if I sounded biased in my response. I'm with the YugabyteDB team right now, but that's not my first and I bet not the last database company. Thus, when I respond on my personal accounts, I try to be as objective as possible and don't bother mentioning my current employment.

Anyway, I'm very positive to see that this article got traction on HN. As a Postgres community member, I truly love what's happening with the database and its ecosystem. The healthy competition within the Postgres ecosystem is a big driver for the database growth that's becoming the Linux of databases.