Greenplum
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| Type | Privately held |
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| 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 |
| Industry | Data Warehouse technologies |
| Products | Database Software, Professional Services, Customer Services |
| Website | www.greenplum.com |
Greenplum is a database software company located 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 into a massively parallel processing (MPP) database.
Greenplum's most current 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.
More recently, Greenplum announced the release of a Single-Node Edition, which offers data analysts access to a free version of the Greenplum Database.
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[edit] History
Greenplum was co-founded in 2003 by Scott Yara, former VP for Sandpiper Networks, and Luke Lonergan, former CEO and founder at Didera[1].
[edit] Enterprise Data Cloud Initiative
Greenplum developed the Enterprise Data Cloud Initiative as the foundation for the next-generation database. This foundation gives each analyst or department within an enterprise individual control over their data. This latest innovation is embodied in Greenplum’s Enterprise Data Cloud initiative[2]
[edit] Technology
The Greenplum Database is based on the Open source database PostgreSQL. It utilizes a shared-nothing MPP (Massive parallel processing) 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 (i.e. it is a shared nothing architecture).
[edit] Platform Support
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 75 customers in verticals ranging from Financial Services and Telco to Internet, Retail, Transportation and Pharmaceutical.[3] One of their largest and most prominent customers is eBay, is running a multi-petabyte system. Other Greenplum customers include companies such as Fox Interactive Media[4], NASDAQ, Zions Bancorporation, Reliance Communications, NYSE Euronext, T-Mobile, Sears, Sony and Skype.[5]
[edit] Competition
Greenplum's main competitors are higher-cost solutions from vendors such as Oracle and Teradata or proprietary data warehouse appliance vendors such as Netezza or Vertica.
[edit] Products
- Greenplum Database
- Greenplum's Single Node Edition
