Greenplum

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Greenplum
TypeProduct of VMware
IndustryBig data technologies
HeadquartersPalo Alto, California
ProductsDatabase management system software
Greenplum Database
Developer(s)VMware
Stable release
6.19.0 / December 2021; 1 month ago (2021-12)
Repositorygithub.com/greenplum-db/gpdb
Operating systemLinux
TypeDatabase management system
LicenseApache 2 License
Websitegreenplum.org

Greenplum is a big data technology based on MPP architecture and the Postgres open source database technology. The technology was created by a company of the same name headquartered in San Mateo, California around 2005. Greenplum was acquired by EMC Corporation in July 2010.[1]

Starting in 2012, its database management system software became known as the Pivotal Greenplum Database sold through Pivotal Software. Pivotal open sourced the core engine and continued its development by the Greenplum Database open source community and Pivotal.

Starting in 2020 Pivotal was acquired by VMware and VMware continued to sponsor the Greenplum Database open source community as well as commercialize the technology under the brand name VMware Tanzu Greenplum.

Company[]

Greenplum, the company, was founded in September 2003 by Scott Yara and Luke Lonergan. It was a merger of two smaller companies: Metapa (founded in August 2000 near Los Angeles)[2] and Didera in Fairfax, Virginia.[3]

Investors included SoundView Ventures, Hudson Ventures and Royal Wulff Ventures. A total of US$20 million in funding was announced at the merger.[4] Greenplum, based in San Mateo, California, released its database management system software based on PostgreSQL in April 2005 calling it Bizgres.[5] Rounds of venture capital of about US$15 million each were invested in March 2006 and February 2007.[6]

In July 2006 a partnership with Sun Microsystems was announced.[7] Sun, which had also acquired MySQL AB, participated in a round of US$27 million investment in January 2009, led by Meritech Capital Partners.[6] The Bizgres project included a few other members, and was supported through about 2008, when the product was just called "Greenplum" as well.[8][9] The Sun Fire X4500 was a reference architecture and used by the majority of customers until a transition was made to Linux around that time. Greenplum was acquired by EMC Corporation in July 2010, becoming the foundation of EMC's big data software division.[1] Although EMC did not disclose the value, it was estimated at US$300 million.[10][11] Greenplum's products at the time of acquisition were the Greenplum Database, Chorus (a management tool), and Data Science Labs. Greenplum had customers in vertical markets including eBay.[12] It became part of Pivotal Software in 2012.[13]

A variant using Apache Hadoop to store data in the Hadoop file system called Hawq was announced in 2013.[14][15] In 2015 the GreenplumDB and Hawq open source software projects were announced.[16]

Technology[]

Pivotal's Greenplum database product uses massively parallel processing (MPP) techniques. Each computer cluster consists of a master node, standby master node, and segment nodes.[17] All of the data resides on the segment nodes and the catalog information is stored in the master nodes. Segment nodes run one or more segments, which are modified PostgreSQL database instances and are assigned a content identifier. For each table the data is divided among the segment nodes based on the distribution column keys specified by the user in the data definition language. For each segment content identifier there is both a primary segment and mirror segment which are not running on the same physical host. When a query enters the master node, it is parsed, planned and dispatched to all of the segments to execute the query plan and either return the requested data or insert the result of the query into a database table. The Structured Query Language, version SQL:2003, is used to present queries to the system. Transaction semantics comply with constraints known as ACID.[18]

Competitors include other MPP database management systems provided by major vendors such as Teradata, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba AnalyticDB and, in the past, IBM Netezza.[17][19] Additional competition comes from other smaller competitors, column-oriented databases such as HP Vertica, Exasol and data warehousing vendors with non MPP architecture, such as Oracle Exadata, IBM DB2 and SAP HANA.

Greenplum Version 5[]

In September 2017, Greenplum Database Version 5 was released. Version 5 includes the first iteration of the Greenplum project strategy of merging PostgreSQL later versions back into Greenplum and is based on PostgreSQL version 8.3 up from the previous version 8.2. [20] Version 5 also introducing the General Availability of the GPORCA Optimizer [21] for cost based optimization of SQL designed for big data.

Greenplum Version 6[]

In September 2019, Greenplum Database Version 6 was released. Version 6 is based on PostgreSQL version 9.4 and features massive gains in [22] OLTP performance. Greenplum 6 was reviewed in the media by several sources and mentioned for its Postgres open source alignment [23] and for its OLTP performance [24]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "EMC to Acquire Greenplum". Press release. EMC Corporation. July 6, 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  2. ^ "Form D: Notice of Sale of Securities" (PDF). US SEC. July 30, 2003. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  3. ^ Maureen O'Gara (September 26, 2003). "Metapa Buys Didera". Linux Business News. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  4. ^ "Metapa Acquires Didera and Closes Additional Funding; Industry Pioneers in High-Performance Computing Combine to Create Breakthrough Linux Database Clustering Solution for Decision Support". Press release. September 23, 2003.
  5. ^ "Bizgres project launched". PostgreSQL developer's web site. April 17, 2005. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  6. ^ a b Duncan Riley (January 21, 2008). "Greenplum Takes $27 Million Series C". Tech Crunch. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  7. ^ Colin White, Richard Hackathorn (June 26, 2007). "Sun/Greenplum". Business Intelligence Best Practices. Retrieved March 15, 2017.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  8. ^ "History". Old Bizgres.org web site. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  9. ^ "Greenplum Updates Open-Source Based Database". Information Week. February 22, 2008. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  10. ^ Om Malik (July 6, 2010). "Big Data = Big Money: EMC Buys Greenplum". GigaOm. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  11. ^ Alexander Haislip (July 7, 2010). "Microsoft, Sun, And SAP Surprising Winners In Greenplum Sale". Forbes. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  12. ^ "ebay's two enormous data warehouses". DBMS2 blog. Monash Research. April 30, 2009. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  13. ^ Timothy Prickett Morgan (March 20, 2012). "EMC wants to be the Linux of big data: Opens up Chorus tool, borgs agile coders Pivotal Labs". The Register. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  14. ^ "When should I use Greenplum Database versus HAWQ?". Pivotal Guru web site. January 31, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  15. ^ Timothy Prickett Morgan (February 25, 2013). "EMC morphs Hadoop elephant into SQL database Hawq". The Register. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  16. ^ Cade Metz (February 17, 2015). "Pivotal Doubles Down on Open Source in a Sign of Changing Software World". Wired. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  17. ^ a b Timothy Prickett Morgan (April 6, 2011). "EMC gets fat and flashy with Greenplum appliances: Take that, Teradata, Exadata, Netezza". The Register. Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  18. ^ Sunila Gollapudi (2013). Getting Started with Greenplum for Big Data Analytics. Packt Publishing. ISBN 9781782177050.
  19. ^ "System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Greenplum vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Teradata Aster". DB-engines. Retrieved March 18, 2017.}
  20. ^ "Pivotal Greenplum is alive and kicking". ZDNet. Retrieved September 14, 2017.}
  21. ^ "Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data" (PDF). ZDNet. Retrieved April 14, 2016.}
  22. ^ "Greenplum 6 OLTP Benchmarks".
  23. ^ "Pivotal's Greenplum database is about to finally align with the open source project. What will that mean for the platform?".
  24. ^ "Substantial rev of the open source, MPP data warehouse offers high concurrency, embedded analytics, and data science capabilities".
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