Greenplum Database

Greenplum database

Massively parallel processing


What is Greenplum database?.

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) database server with an architecture specially designed to manage large-scale analytic data warehouses and business intelligence workloads.


Maintained by License Type Popular Examples Support Updates Developer Skills
Apache 2 License greenplum.org UNIX or Linux / SQL
Often Compared to Testing Accessibility Maintained by Repository
Postgresql, Hadoop HammerDB github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb



  Pros:
  • Very fast for query processing.
  Cons:
  • Speed may suffer during large bulk operations or read queries.
  • No support for delta backup, you can only backup a full table.
  • No support for “point in time” recovery