Software provider Microsoft has acquired US-based big data technology developer Citus Data for an undisclosed amount, enabling internet company Digital Garage to exit.
Founded in 2011, Citus Data has developed an extension to open source database management system PostgreSQL that adds real-time analytics capabilities and brings together transactional and analytics processing tasks.
Citus is available as a database-as-a-service platform, enterprise software or a free open source download, according to the company. Microsoft launched a community-based database service for PostgreSQL in March 2018.
Digital Garage, Trinity Ventures and angel investors Matt Ocko, Ben Ling and Paul Buchheit backed Citus Data’s $1.6m seed round in 2012, three years before it raised $9.5m in a series A round led by venture capital firm Khosla Ventures that included Data Collective and Vaizra Investments. Its investors also include Streamlined Ventures.
Rohan Kumar, corporate vice-president of Microsoft’s data integration subsidiary, Azure Data, said: “The acquisition of Citus Data builds on Azure’s open source commitment and enables us to provide the massive scalability and performance our customers demand as their workloads grow.
“Working together, we will accelerate the delivery of key, enterprise-ready features from Azure to PostgreSQL and enable critical PostgreSQL workloads to run on Azure with confidence.”