hmm 200K/month for 20 HA nodes with 20TB and 4TB RAM. A bit pricy and 20TB is kindah low for max disk. A single PG instance on a hefty box can do 20TB.
It comes with more than just the database. The package includes, but not limited to:
1. All enterprise features.
2. All nodes being managed by Citus themselves. All the upgrades or rebalancing will be done by them.
Another option which should be cheaper is paying for the Enterprise license and manage it on your own hardware with your own setup.
Finally, you could also spin up the community version, which is free but lack important enterprise features such as rebalancing the shards when you add more nodes to the setup.
Thank you for all the info the use case we are running a setup with dedicated PG RDS instance for each client some of them are pushing the RDS limits of 6TB potentially looking to move to multi tenant setup as managing 100+ instances is not fun. The read load is fairly light it's rare that more than a few people are running queries against an instance. Would it be possible to consolidate using Citus (are there any advantages as far as ease of management etc?)
Craig from Citus here, if disk is your biggest bottleneck we do have some flexibility there and can go larger than 1 TB per node if needed. Or it may be that Citus isn't the best tool for you as well.
In general what we find is most Citus users are either memory constrained or constrained on processing power.
