Greenplum Database Concepts

This section provides an overview of Greenplum Database components and features such as high availability, parallel data loading features, and management utilities.

This section contains the following topics:

• About the Greenplum Architecture
  Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) database server with an architecture specially designed to manage large-scale analytic data warehouses and business intelligence workloads.
• About Management and Monitoring Utilities
  Greenplum Database provides standard command-line utilities for performing common monitoring and administration tasks.
• About Concurrency Control in Greenplum Database
  Greenplum Database uses the PostgreSQL Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) model to manage concurrent transactions for heap tables.
• About Parallel Data Loading
  This topic provides a short introduction to Greenplum Database data loading features.
• About Redundancy and Failover in Greenplum Database
  This topic provides a high-level overview of Greenplum Database high availability features.
• About Database Statistics in Greenplum Database
  An overview of statistics gathered by the ANALYZE command in Greenplum Database.

Parent topic: Greenplum Database Administrator Guide