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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

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Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes. What Exactly is Greenplum? At a glance – TLDR.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. Many of these innovations will have a significant analytics component or may even be completely driven by it. Cloud analytics are everywhere.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

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Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands.

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