Greenplum
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| Type | Subsidiary of EMC Corporation |
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| Industry | Data warehouse technologies |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters |  San Mateo, California, United States |
| Key people | Bill Cook, CEO Scott Yara, President & Co-Founder Luke Lonergan, CTO & Co-Founder Mike Asher, Chief Financial Officer Ronaldo Ama, Sr. VP of Engineering |
| Products | Database Software, Professional Services, Customer Services |
| Website | www.greenplum.com |
Greenplum is a database software company in San Mateo, California, specializing in enterprise data cloud solutions for large-scale data warehousing and analytics. The Greenplum Database is built from modified PostgreSQL in a massively parallel processing (MPP) database.
Developments include the addition of an analytic extension based on MapReduce, as well as a Column-Oriented Table feature as part of the Polymorphic Data Storage technology. In October 2009, Greenplum released the Single-Node Edition, which offers data analysts access to a free version of the Greenplum Database.
Greenplum also announced its Enterprise Data Cloud platform initiative in 2009, partnering with vendors like the data integration company Informatica and the business intelligence software company MicroStrategy to support cloud computing capabilities for clients.[1] In April 2010, Greenplum announced the release of its latest technology, Database 4.0, and launched its newest product, Chorus - the world's first Enterprise Data Cloud platform.[2]
On July 6, 2010, EMC Corporation announced plans to acquire Greenplum for an all-cash deal.[3][4] EMC completed the acquisition of Greenplum and continues to develop the technology marketed under the Greenplum name.[5]
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[edit] History
Greenplum was founded in 2003 by Scott Yara, former VP for Sandpiper Networks, and Luke Lonergan, former CEO and founder at Didera.[6]
[edit] Technology
The Greenplum Database is based on the open source database PostgreSQL.[7] It utilizes a shared-nothing MPP architecture that has been designed from the ground up for BI and analytical processing using commodity hardware. In this architecture, data is partitioned across multiple segment servers, and each segment owns and manages a distinct portion of the overall data. All communication is via a network interconnect; there is no disk-level sharing or contention to be concerned with.
[edit] Platform support
Greenplum Database supported for production use on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2 (64-bit), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (64-bit), CentOS Linux 5.x (64-bit) and Sun Solaris 10U5+ (64-bit). Greenplum Database 3.3 is supported on server hardware from a range of vendors including HP, Dell, Sun and IBM.
Greenplum Database is supported for non-production (development and evaluation) use on Mac OSX 10.5, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 or higher (32-bit) and CentOS Linux 5.2 or higher (32-bit).
[edit] Customers
Greenplum has over 100 customers in verticals ranging from financial services and telco to Internet, retail, transportation and pharmaceuticals.[8] Greenplum customers include Fox,[9] NASDAQ, Zions Bancorporation, Reliance Communications, NYSE Euronext, Bakrie Telecom, T-Mobile, Sears, Orbitz, Sony and Skype.[10]
[edit] Partnerships
Greenplum has partners in the industries of hardware, business intelligence, ETL and ELT. They include Arista Networks, HighPoint Solutions, MicroStrategy, and Xtract.[11] The company has consulting and reseller partners as well.
[edit] Competition
Greenplum's main competitors are solutions from vendors such as IBM, Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, Sybase, and Vertica.
[edit] Products
- Greenplum Database
- Greenplum Single Node Edition
- Greenplum Chorus
[edit] References
- ^ "Greenplum Brings the Power of Self-Service to Data Warehousing with its Enterprise Data Cloud™ Initiative" (Press release). Greenplum. http://www.greenplum.com/news/215/388/Greenplum-Brings-the-Power-of-Self-Service-to-Data-Warehousing-with-its-Enterprise-Data-Cloud-Initiative/d,press-releases/.
- ^ Diaz, Sam (April 12, 2010). "Greenplum pushes enterprise data cloud with new releases". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/greenplum-pushes-enterprise-data-cloud-with-new-releases/32965.
- ^ Anthony Ha, VentureBeat. "EMC Greenplum Acquisition." July 6, 2010.
- ^ EMC to Acquire Greenplum
- ^ John Kell and Nathan Baker (October 20, 2010). "EMC's Profit Jumps". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304510704575561903371588636.html.
- ^ http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/view/e_spkr/2940
- ^ Gonsalves, Antone (February 22, 2008). "Greenplum Updates Open-Source Based Database". http://intelligent-enterprise.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3IEDTLRVJ3LDLQE1GHOSKH4ATMY32JVN?articleID=206801311.
- ^ http://www.dbms2.com/2009/04/30/ebays-two-enormous-data-warehouses/
- ^ http://www.dbms2.com/2009/06/08/more-on-fox-interactive-medias-use-of-greenplum/
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- ^ "Greenplum Partner Spotlight". http://www.greenplum.com/partners/testimonials/. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
