Comments on: Greenplum Single-Node Edition — sometimes free is a real cool price

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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:38:26 +0000

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By: Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:51:11 +0000

Having been a Netezza PS partner, and having worked for Dataupia, I know how much work goes into making Postgres suitable for ‘big data’ use. There are real Greenplum differentiators in there when compared to Postgres (see Curt’s article).

This is a very smart move by Greenplum from my perspective. The ability to scale-out from SMP to MPP when/if the need arises is very powerful, and not something many companies can offer.

By: Ruhal

Ruhal — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:38:31 +0000

Unlike infobright there is a large user community providing production like scripts for Greenplum at http://www.gpdba.com.

By: keru

keru — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:10:14 +0000

As i posted on the greenplum forum : it’s GREAT for learning and evaluation purpose.

As a DBA, i highly appreciate the 900+ pages greenplum documentation. But it’s even better when you can *use* the software related to the documentation

And there is a LOT of difference between greenplum and postgresql (just read the first few page about SQL conformance of greenplum).

Running greenplum on a single octocore node can be good… as long as you’re not IOBound

By: Ben Werther

Ben Werther — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:44:14 +0000

There’s a world of difference between running Greenplum and vanilla PostgreSQL for analytical queries. PostgreSQL is a great database, but on an 8 core box, each PostgreSQL query will only consume a single core and use 1/8th of the box. Greenplum will parallelize the query across all 8 cores, just like it can parallelize queries with linear scalability across many 100s of cores with the MPP edition.

By: Todd Fin

Todd Fin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:12:58 +0000

Don’t believe such a move can provide a big value. How this is different from just running PostgreSQL on the single server for free? Also who is the competitor greenplum is going to Deprive? Are you pointing to EnterpriseDB?

By: Bob Zurek

Bob Zurek — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:04:27 +0000

You can find out more about Infobright Community Edition here:
http://www.infobright.org/doc/specifications/

and information about our Enterprise Edition here:
http://www.infobright.com/Products/Features/

By: Jerome Pineau

Jerome Pineau — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:31:54 +0000

I think InfoBright’s ICE version (if I recall the name correctly, the freebie version) is not really an option without any DML right?

By: Guillaume Theoret

Guillaume Theoret — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:38:12 +0000

Wow, that’s very interesting. I’m definitely going to give this a test run to see how it matches up against LucidDB.