VMware Tanzu Greenplum

Data Base Greenplum is a massive parallel processing (MPP) database server with an architecture specifically designed to manage large-scale analytic datastores and business intelligence workloads. MPP refers to systems with two or more processors that communicate to perform an operation, each processor having its own memory, operating system, and disks. Greenplum uses this high-performance system architecture to distribute the load to multi-terabyte data stores and can use all system resources in parallel to process the request.

Greenplum Data Base is based on open source PostgreSQL technology. These are essentially multiple instances of the PostgreSQL database that act together as one cohesive database management system (DMS). Greenplum (GP) is relational DBMSs with a massive parallel processing architecture (Shared Nothing)^[1]

History

2020

VMware Corporation acquired Pivotal, which has been a Greenplum vendor since 2012. From this point on, the open-source MPP-DBMS is commercialized under the VMware Tanzu Greenplum trademark.

2018

Integration with Luxms BI's domestic data visualization and analysis platform.

2015

Pivotal has published the source code of the Greenplum DBMS under the free Apache license.

2012

Pivotal purchased the EMC Greenplum Community Edition, continuing to develop it under its own brand.

2011

EMC has released the free Greenplum Community Edition for public use.

2010

EMC has taken over Greenplum, continuing to work on the project.

2005

The first release of the technology by the company of the same name in California (USA).

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