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Introducing Pivotal Greenplum-Spark Connector, Integrating with Apache Spark
Introducing Pivotal Greenplum-Spark Connector, Integrating with Apache Spark We are excited to announce general availability of the new, native Greenplum-Spark Connector. Pivotal Greenplum-Spark Connector combines the best of both worlds – Greenplum, massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical data platform and Apache Spark, in-memory processing with the flexibility to
Introducing gpbackup & gprestore
Earlier this year the Greenplum team embarked down the path to create the next generation backup and restore tooling for the Greenplum Database. After conducting dozens of customer interviews and reviewing a long list of enhancement requests, two overarching themes emerged: Performance User Experience
Introduction to Writable External protocol of gpfdist
Gpfdist support both readable external table and writable external table. This blog will introduce how writable gpfdist external table works.
IoT, CEP, storage and NATS in between. Part 1 of 3.
Intro Hello, my name is Dmitry Dorofeev, I’m a software architect working for Luxms Group. We are a team of creative programmers touching technology which moves faster than we can imagine these days. This blog post is about building a small streaming analytics pipeline which is minimalistic, but
Greenplum Database Tables and Compression
Greenplum Database is built for advanced Data Warehouse and Analytic workloads at scale. Whether the data set is five terabytes on a handful of servers, or over a petabyte in size on a hundred-plus nodes, the architecture of Greenplum allows it to easily grow to meet the data
Conquering your database workloads using WLM
Conquering Your Database Workloads Howard Goldberg – Executive Director, Morgan Stanley, Head of Greenplum engineering 1 Introduction Everyone has been in some type of traffic delay, usually at the worst possible time. These traffic jams result from an unexpected accident, volume on the roadway, or lane closures forcing
Altered States: Greenplum Alter Table Command by Howard Goldberg
A common question that is frequently asked when performing maintenance on Greenplum tables is “Why does my ALTER TABLE add column DDL statement take so long to run?” Although it appears to be a simple command and the expectations are that it will execute in minutes this is
Using The Greenplum Connector To Load Data Into Gemfire
One use case organizations face is the need to bulk load data into Gemfire Regions where regions in GemFire are similar to the table concept in a database. Unlike a database, bulk-loading data into GemFire is more of a programming exercise than encountered with traditional bulk loading capabilities
High Concurrency, Low Latency Index Lookups with Pivotal Greenplum Database
By Cyrille Lintz, Dino Bukvic, Gianluca Rossetti You may have heard or read that Pivotal Greenplum is not suitable for small query processing or low latency lookups, but like any data platform, your mileage may vary depending on the use case and how you architect it. This post explains how
Greenplum Next Generation Big Data Platform: Top 5 reasons
What are the Top 5 reasons that Greenplum is gaining in popularity and is the world’s next generation data platform?
Pivotal Greenplum: Life in a Vacuum by Howard Goldberg
Vacuuming your home is a laborious task that you would rather not do. However, vacuuming your home is an essential chore that must be done. The same is true for vacuuming the catalog in a Pivotal Greenplum database (“Greenplum”). The proper maintenance and care is required for the
Introduction of Readable External Protocol of gpfdist
As the fundamental of all ETL operation of Greenplum, it worth explaining a little more about the detail of gpfdist to understand why it is faster than other tools and how could we improve in future. This blog will focus on the detail of communication of readable external
Graphing Orlando IoT Temperature Sensor Readings
I wondered what temperatures in Orlando have done over this last week. You see I just happen to have a set of IoT devices which are streaming data that I persist into an archive. One of those sensors is on a covered patio in Orlando, so it would
Introduction to Greenplum ETL tool – Overview
Why ETL is important for Greenplum As a data warehouse product of future, Greenplum is able to process huge set of data which is usually in petabyte level, but Greenplum can’t generate such number of data by itself. Data is often generated by millions of users or embedded
On-Demand Machine Learning
Achieving Machine Learning Nirvana By Shailesh Doshi Recently, I have been in multiple discussions with clients who want to achieve consistent operationalized data science and machine learning pipelines while the business demands more ‘on-demand’ capability. Often the ‘on-demand’ conversation starts with ‘Apache Spark’ type usage for analytics use
Meetup: Introducing Greenplum 5.0
Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 6:00 PM PST Pivotal 875 Howard St., 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA (map) Greenplum 5.0 is a commercially available and open source Data Warehouse. This is the next milestone for the Greenplum community since Greenplum was officially open sourced in October of 2015.