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by threeseed 480 days ago
Citus is owned by Microsoft.

And history has not been nice to startups like this continuing their products over the long term.

It's why unless it is built-in and supported it's not feasible for most to depend on it.

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that's fair, but that's true of mongodb itself too. I wouldn't count that against either of them.
MongoDB makes money selling and supporting MongoDB.

Microsoft does not make money supporting Citus.