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Cloudifying Enterprise Data Analytics with VMware Tanzu Greenplum and Cloudian Object Storage

by Amit Rawlani, Director Technology Alliances & Solutions, Cloudianwith technical assistance from Gang Yan, Sr. Product Manager, VMware Enterprise data analytics architectures based on traditional data warehouse platforms–running on appliances and/or traditional storage infrastructure solutions–cannot keep up with the scale, speed, or efficiency required by dynamic enterprises. They can also get

2022-07-20

PXF – Introducing support for reading the Avro Logical Types

AVRO: Apache AVRO is a data serialization system which provides Rich data structures. A compact, fast, binary data format. A container file, to store persistent data. Remote procedure call (RPC). Simple integration with dynamic languages. Code generation is not required to read or write data files nor to

2022-07-01

Platform Extension Framework (PXF): Enabling Parallel Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources In Greenplum

Authors: Venkatesh Raghavan, Alexander Denissov, Francisco Guerrero, Oliver Albertini, Divya Bhargov, Lisa Owen, Shivram Mani, Lav Jain Abstract: With the explosion of data stores and cloud services, data now resides across many disparate systems and in a variety of formats. When multiple data sets exist in external systems,

2020-05-12

Multi-temperature data querying from heterogeneous data stores with Greenplum and PXF

Often in businesses, it is hard to fit all data into a single store. Data that is old and not accessed often (cold data) is generally archived and placed in long-term stores like a data lake or an S3 object store. Data that is recent and prone to

2020-05-12

Using Greenplum to access Minio

Pivotal Greenplum Database® (GPDB) is an advanced, fully featured, open source data warehouse. GPDB provides powerful and rapid analytics on petabyte scale data volumes. Greenplum 5.17.0 brings support to access highly-scalable cloud object storage systems such as Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage. Minio

2019-02-26

Some Bits on PXF Plugins

“Occasionally it becomes desirable and necessary…to make real what currently is merely imaginary” By Kyle Dunn If you’ve not heard already, Pivotal eXtensible Framework, or PXF (for those of you with leftover letters in your alphabet soup), is a unified (and parallel) means of accessing a variety of

2017-08-20