Pivotal Big Data Suite

Pivotal Big Data Suite is a set of the technologies of a corporate class supporting Apache Hadoop and HDFS.

On April 8, 2014 the Pivotal company announced the beginning of deliveries to the market of a packet Pivotal Big Data Suite.

Description

According to the minimum cumulative contract Pivotal will offer Pivotal HD - one of the most advanced and functional implementations of Apache Hadoop of the corporate level, without restrictions and additional fee, including for support.

As a part of a packet products:

• Pivotal Greenplum Database,
• Pivotal GemFire,
• Pivotal SQLFire,
• Pivotal GemFire XD,
• Pivotal HAWQ
• Pivotal HD

Unlike heterogeneous solutions in which components of different suppliers are used the packet of Pivotal Big Data Suite offers centralized set of opportunities at the heart of which – 30 years' experience of development of the management tools data leading in the market and tools of analytics. He helps the companies to use technologies which are suitable for needs of their business, does not demand excess investments and additional expenses.

Advantages

The packet of Pivotal Big Data Suite connects together all dominant technologies of the company and gives to customers the chance of effective use of any of them as required.

The packet of analytics of Pivotal Greenplum Database is expanded for various tools – from data analysis in memory in real time using Pivotal GemFire, Pivotal SQLFire and Pivotal GemFire XD to fast requests by means of Pivotal HAWQ in Pivotal HD. The unified, simplified and flexible licensing gives to the organizations flexibility of use of the technology, the most suitable for their business.

Availability

For April 10, 2014 the packet of Pivotal Big Data Suite is available. Cost is equal to subscription cost for two or three years, is calculated on number of physical cores of a hardware platform.

2015: Updates of Pivotal Big Data Suite are released

On May 21, 2015 the Pivotal company announced release of updates of a packet of Pivotal Big Data Suite.

The corporate Pivotal HD distribution kit for Apache Hadoop is updated and up to 100 times performance of solutions for analytics, including the solution Pivotal Greenplum Database, delivered with Pivotal Query Optimizer — the optimizer for Big Data is accelerated.

Representation of Pivotal Big Data Suite, 2015

Completions will help customers to cope with the sharp growth of volumes of data sets owing to use of mobile devices, social networks, cloud computing and Internet of Things and also to execute advanced queries of these data sets with unprecedentedly high level of speed, scalability and flexibility.

For performance improvement of Pivotal Greenplum Database and Pivotal HAWQ the new Pivotal Query Optimizer tool — the most modern query optimizer for Big Data is added to a packet. Tests of the company show that Pivotal Query Optimizer allows to increase significantly performance of Pivotal HAWQ, the most modern in the world of a subsystem of SQL-on-Hadoop, and Pivotal Greenplum Database.

The packet of Pivotal Big Data Suite includes the first version of Pivotal HD on the basis of a core of Open Data Platform (ODP), important updates of the Apache Hadoop components (including Apache Spark). The packet of Pivotal Big Data Suite provides higher level of stability, controllability, security, monitoring and data processing in [[the Hadoop system. Now the enterprises will be able to transfer more crucial workloads to Hadoop, to store and process large volumes of data with smaller costs and in strict accordance with regulatory requirements and corporate politicians.

Pivotal Greenplum Database и Pivotal HAWQ

• the increase in productivity is provided by means of the tool

Pivotal Query Optimizer

• an opportunity to process a large number of diverse workloads with a high performance allows big groups of specialists to carry out several tasks of analytics at the same time.

• an opportunity to process large volumes of data when scaling without decline in production.

• the improved data structure and abilities to manage data of Pivotal HD

• Pivotal HD is founded on the standardized core of Open Data Platform including Apache Hadoop 2.6 and Apache Ambari.

• Pivotal HD updates the operating Hadoop components for creation of scenarios and request processing (Apache Pig and Apache Hive), not relational databases (Apache HBase) and also basic coordination and orchestration of workflows (Apache Zookeeper and Apache Oozie).

• Pivotal HD is complemented with a core of Apache Spark and library of machine learning.

• Pivotal HD contains the additional Hadoop components for security (Apache Ranger (incubation), Apache Knox), monitoring (Nagios, Ganglia in addition to Apache Ambari) and data processings (Apache Tez).

The packet of Pivotal Big Data Suite helps the companies to upgrade infrastructure of data, to obtain new significant information by means of modern means of analytics and to create applications using a number of the leading products for data management offered at the standard price of a subscription. It includes recently released application services which give to developers the chance to use SQL databases and NoSQL, processing in memories and environments of processing in real time for ensuring high availability and fault tolerance of strategically important innovation applications.

Components of a packet Pivotal Big Data Suite can be unrolled on normal equipment, special hardware and software systems, in virtual environment and also in public, private or hybrid clouds.