Tag: Greenplum
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Hadoop Update
There are a few articles collecting dust in my feed reader from a period a couple months ago when I didn’t have much time staying up to date on what’s happening… here’s the rundown of the most important stuff about Hadoop.
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Greenplum to have it’s own Hadoop Distribution
Reported and analysed by Tony Baer in OnStrategies Perspectives, and reported by Derrick Harris in GigaOm’s in EMC, NetApp Make It a Big Day for Big Data Star Hadoop, we learn that EMC is using the on-going EMC World conference to its potential, and is announcing that they’re growing the Database division with the decision to sell their own Hadoop distribution with value add management tools and integration.… Continued
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Exadata Performance Architect moving to EMC’s Greenplum
Now that’s a thing: Kevin Closson Joins EMC Data Computing Division To Focus On Greenplum Performance Engineering! Kevin’s been the public voice of Exadata in the blogosphere for much of four years, so that’s quite a loss for the folks at Oracle.… Continued
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Teradata acquiring Aster Data
This just came in: Teradata acquiring Aster Data. Database consolidation wars is full speed ahead, last month, it was HP acquiring Vertica, last year IBM bought Netezza, and EMC bought Greenplum. So within six months, the four biggest and most promising MPP DB vendors have found a new owner.
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EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance
I’ve been wanting to write about the EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance for a while now, but that launch just took longer than expected. Go read Curt Monash’s notes and the ZDNet article for the available details. Their integration with Data Domain and with SAN as 2ndary copy, allowing to do SAN based replication, snaps or backups is something that I don’t see in other vendor’s packages.… Continued
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eBay replaces Greenplum with Teradata
A quicky: eBay followup — Greenplum out, Teradata > 10 petabytes, Hadoop has some value, and more. Interesting to see that the impression is that Greenplum got thrown out more for reliability reasons than performance. EBay also was repeatedly mentioned as a key customer using the MapReduce integration piece in the past, there’s also an update on that.
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Simplification Through Specialization
Ramon Chen’s post Simplification Through Specialization (later repeated on the Rainstor blog) rang quite a bell with me, also on the personal level. But here’s why specialization is better for some:
If you were going to spend big bucks, you’d expect results and performance to match your use cases and requirements.… Continued
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EMC buying Greenplum
I had such a busy day that I didn’t get to post about EMC buying Greenplum. But there’s a good side to the delay too, because now I get to link to all the other folks who were faster than I, and have something to say on the topic.
- EMC To Acquire Greenplum
- EMC is buying Greenplum
- EMC Acquires Data Warehouse Vendor Greenplum; Creates New “Data Computing” Product Division
- Quick thoughts on EMC acquiring Greenplum
- EMC Buys Greenplum – Big Data Realignment Continues
- EMC Picks a Greenplum
- EMC buys Greenplum – But how reliable are analytics without MDM?
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Greenplum Database Single-Node Edition
Let’s have a look at Greenplum Database Single-Node Edition.
This new, free version of Greenplum Database gives data analysts access to Greenplum’s high-performance database for large-scale analytical projects outside the enterprise data warehouse (EDW).… Continued