"Microsoft has been supporting PostgreSQL on Azure since 2017, with its 2019 acquisition of Citus Data bringing significant experience with scaling and performance. Since then, Microsoft has begun to build out a family of PostgreSQL platform-as-a-service implementations, with a hyperscale version as part of its Cosmos DB platform and a managed flexible server for most day-to-day operations. It even supports you running your own PostgreSQL instances on Azure VMs."
"Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers' laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and any cloud without breaking the bank."
Enterprises require flexible, portable data storage that scales from developers' laptops to global clouds and runs on any OS or cloud without excessive cost. MySQL and its forks struggle with large, multi–data-center databases, and proprietary systems impose licensing and cloud restrictions. PostgreSQL has become a dominant open source option because of its flexibility, extensible architecture, and wide platform support. Microsoft has supported PostgreSQL on Azure since 2017, acquired Citus Data in 2019, and built PaaS offerings including hyperscale on Cosmos DB, managed flexible server, and Azure VM support. Microsoft contributes upstream with 19 employees and active work toward the 2026 release. Azure HorizonDB is positioned as a scale-out, high-performance addition to that PostgreSQL family.
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