VMware Greenplum 6.24 Documentation

This documentation describes how to install, configure, and use VMware Greenplum, and provides links to related products that work with VMware Greenplum.

Welcome to VMware Greenplum

VMware Greenplum is a massively parallel processing (MPP) database server that supports next generation data warehousing and large-scale analytics processing. By automatically partitioning data and running parallel queries, it allows a cluster of servers to operate as a single database supercomputer performing tens or hundreds times faster than a traditional database. It supports SQL, MapReduce parallel processing, and data volumes ranging from hundreds of gigabytes, to hundreds of terabytes.

Differences Compared to Open Source Greenplum Database

VMware Greenplum 6 includes all of the functionality in the open source Greenplum Database project and adds:

• Product packaging and installation script
• Support for QuickLZ compression. QuickLZ compression is not provided in the open source version of Greenplum Database due to licensing restrictions.
• Support for data connectors:
  • Greenplum-NiFi Connector
  • Greenplum-Spark Connector
  • Greenplum-Informatica Connector
  • Greenplum-Kafka Integration
  • Greenplum Streaming Server
• Support for Greenplum-sourced or enhanced contrib modules:
  • advanced_password_check
  • diskquota
  • gp_array_agg
  • gp_legacy_string_agg
  • gp_parallel_retrieve_cursor
  • gp_percentile_agg
  • gp_sparse_vector
  • greenplum_fdw
  • orafce
• Data Direct ODBC/JDBC Drivers
• Greenplum PostGIS Extension
• gpcopy utility for copying or migrating objects between Greenplum systems
• Support for managing Greenplum Database using VMware Greenplum Command Center
• Support for full text search and text analysis using VMware GPText
• Greenplum backup plugin for DD Boost
• Backup/restore storage plugin API

Server Documentation

VMware Greenplum installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance information:

• Release Notes
• Installation Guide
• Administrator Guide
• Security Configuration Guide
• Best Practices Guide
• Utility Guide
• Reference Guide
• Platform Extension Framework (PXF)

Client Documentation

UNIX-based client, load, and connectivity tools information for VMware Greenplum

• Client and Loader Tools
• DataDirect ODBC/JDBC Driver Documentation

Related Documentation

Related VMware Greenplum documentation and utilities

• Virtual Memory Calculator (for resource queue-based workload management)

• VMware Greenplum Command Center

• VMware Greenplum Text

• VMware Greenplum Streaming Server

• VMware Greenplum Connector for Apache Spark

• VMware Greenplum Connector for Apache NiFi

• VMware Greenplum Connector for Informatica