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Founded in June 2003 as Metapa, Greenplum is headquartered in San Mateo, California and has offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
[edit] Program specifications
Greenplum Database is a commercial parallelization extension of the open-source PostgreSQL RDBMS that runs on commodity x86-based hardware.
[edit] Platforms
Greenplum Database is supported on Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X.
[edit] Distinguishing features
- Greenplum Database (running on the Sun Fire X4500) is the RDBMS that is used by the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance.[2]
- Greenplum Database employs Massive parallelism and a Shared nothing architecture[3] using Commodity computing hardware.[4]
- Greenplum Database is built on top of the PostgreSQL Open source RDBMS.[4]
[edit] External links
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ About Greenplum
- ^ Sun Data Warehouse Appliance
- ^ Shared Nothing Architecture
- ^ a b Greenplum Database features
