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:
- Support for Greenplum-sourced or enhanced contrib modules:
- gpmt diagnostic utility
- Data Direct ODBC/JDBC Drivers
- Data Science Packages for Python, R
- Greenplum Clients
- VMware Greenplum Backup and Restore plugin for DD Boost
- VMware Greenplum Backup Manager (gpbackup_manager)
- VMware Greenplum Command Center (
gpcc) user interface for managing Greenplum Database - VMware Greenplum Data Copy Utility (
gpcopy) for copying or migrating objects between Greenplum systems - VMware Greenplum Text (
gptext) for full text search and text analysis
VMware Greenplum 7 also bundles or packages these open source components:
- diskquota
- MADlib
- PL/Container
- PL/Java
- PL/R
- PostGIS
- VMware Greenplum Platform Extension Framework (PXF)
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
Client Documentation
UNIX-based client, load, and connectivity tools information for VMware Greenplum:
Related Documentation
Related VMware Greenplum documentation and utilities:
- Connector for VMware Greenplum and VMware GemFire
- VMware Greenplum Backup and Restore
- VMware Greenplum Command Center
- VMware Greenplum Connector for Apache NiFi
- VMware Greenplum Connector for Apache Spark
- VMware Greenplum Connector for Informatica
- VMware Greenplum Data Copy Utility
- VMware Greenplum Disaster Recovery
- VMware Greenplum Platform Extension Framework (PXF)
- VMware Greenplum Streaming Server
- VMware Greenplum Text
- VMware Greenplum Upgrade
- Virtual Memory Calculator (for resource queue-based workload management)
