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24 alternatives to Citus Cloud

A database for building real-time apps on billions of events

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Citus Cloud launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Software Engineering Daily - Scaling PostgreSQL▲70

   A look at modern database approaches and how Citus scales PG

   2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Citus▲121

   Turn Postgres into a scale-out distributed database

   2016 · citusdata.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Precursor▲227

   A real-time collaborative prototyping tool

   2014 · prcrsr.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Eventtus▲74

   Engagement platform for events.

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   CircleCI 2.0▲215

   Powerful CI/CD for teams building great things

   2017 · circleci.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Citus add-on for Heroku▲99

   Worry-free Postgres for SaaS built to scale out.

   2017 · elements.heroku.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Datazar 2.0▲118

   Advanced, cloud-based research collaboration

   2017 · datazar.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Contentify▲70

   a real-time collaborative content manager on top of Github

   2014 · thyb.github.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Quackpad▲139

   Collaborative docs for teams using Slack

   2015 · quackpad.io · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Habitus▲126

    An open source build flow tool for Docker

    2016 · habitus.io · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Restyaboard▲197

    An open source alternative to Trello

    2015 · restya.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Cluvio▲69

    A new cloud analytics platform based on SQL and R

    2016 · cluvio.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    HiveFlux + Slack▲93

    Real-time task management meets real-time communication

    2015 · blog.hiveflux.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    HiveFlux▲68

    Real-time task management and planning

    2014 · hiveflux.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Redbeard▲199

    Framework for fast & simple native app development

    2016 · redbeard.io · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Matterhorn▲163

    Simple and light-weight project management tool

    2015 · matterhorn.io · its alternatives →

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    Lighthouse▲144

    Real-time monitoring and alerts for Slack administrators

    2016 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Nitrous.io▲112

    Lightning fast cloud development environments

    2014 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Stack▲88

    A task manager for Devs & Designers

    2015 · macropod.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Timekit▲97

    A comprehensive scheduling API (pre-launch)

    2014 · timekit.io · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Sense▲67

    Cloud platform for data science and big data analytics

    2014 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Mobingi▲7

    A fully automated cloud platform

    2015 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Datomic▲73

    Distributed immutable transactional database for the cloud

    2014 · datomic.com · its alternatives →

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    Servant▲94

    A simple cloud database for everyone

    2014 · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →