Open Source Data Warehouse: Greenplum

tassepatu — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:57:31 +0000

In 2005, Greenplum released an enterprise-level massively parallel processing (MPP) version of PostgreSQL called Greenplum Database. Greenplum Database is the industry’s first massively parallel processing (MPP) database server based on open-source technology. It is explicitly designed to support business intelligence (BI) applications and large, multi-terabyte data warehouses.

Greenplum Database is the first open source data warehouse which powered database server that can scale to support multi-terabyte data warehousing demands. It is based on PostgreSQL, the most advanced open-source database available. This section explains Greenplum Database’s similarities and differences as compared to PostgreSQL.
Since that time, Greenplum continues to actively contribute to the PostgreSQL community by submitting features that make PostgreSQL a more robust open source database for Business Intelligence applications. Likewise, Greenplum benefits from the advances made by the PostgreSQL development community.