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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. 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. What is an MPP Database?

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Countdown to What is Next in AWS. More information.

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Delivering a Near Real-Time Single View into Operations with a Federated Database

The Polyglot Developer

So the data within your organization spans across multiple databases, database platforms, and even storage types, but you need to bring it together and make sense of the data that’s dispersed. Let’s say you’re in the automotive or supply chain industries. What’s a scenario where this might make sense?