Bizgres MPP 2.2 Generally Available for Production Use; Greenplum's Latest Massively Parallel Version of PostgreSQL for BI Advances Performance, Compatibility and Usability.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Greenplum, the leading provider of enterprise PostgreSQL for business intelligence (BI), today announced general availability of its Bizgres MPP (Massively Parallel Processing or Massively Parallel Processor) A multiprocessing architecture that uses up to thousands of processors. Some might contend that a computer system with 64 or more CPUs is a massively parallel processor. 2.2 database. This release delivers significant compatibility, performance and usability improvements and has benefited from input by Greenplum's growing list of production customers and partners. "The 2.2 release continues Greenplum's commitment to the delivery of enterprise data warehouse software that provides the performance and scalability of a massively parallel See MPP. architecture, while preserving full compatibility with PostgreSQL," said Luke Lonergan, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Greenplum. "Production use and feedback from the user community was critical to helping our team generate significant improvements to an already revolutionary product. The majority of our customers are running Bizgres MPP 2.2 in production now." Bizgres MPP extends the capabilities of the PostgreSQL database system, already widely regarded as best-in-class for enterprise features such as transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. , data integrity and security. A PostgreSQL-based, software-only, clustered solution, Bizgres MPP enables organizations to grow their data warehouse capabilities in conjunction with their needs. More about Bizgres MPP 2.2 Highlights of the new features and capabilities include: --Optimizer and Sorting performance improvements (developed by the Bizgres open source community) --Cursor support eases the retrieval and referencing of large result sets --Full support for all PostgreSQL native data types simplifies the transition from existing PostgreSQL implementations --Enhanced "Explain Analyze" support improves SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. tuning and application development --Temporary objects support allows the use of temporary tables, views and sequences --Improved subquery support enables more complex statements and sophisticated analytics --PostgreSQL 8.1.4 compatibility and patches leverage the community's latest contributions to PostgreSQL Availability and Pricing Bizgres MPP 2.2 is available for Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. via a free download from The Bizgres Network, at bgn.greenplum.com. Development and evaluation use are free of charge. Customers pay a software license fee to use Bizgres MPP 2.2 in production. About Greenplum Headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , Greenplum is the leading provider of high-performance PostgreSQL for business intelligence. Greenplum's Bizgres family of breakthrough database products is poised to revolutionize the way enterprises use BI to gain key competitive advantages in the marketplace, from departmental data marts to multi-terabyte data warehouses. The company sponsors The Bizgres Project (www.bizgres.org), a community effort designed to make PostgreSQL the most robust open source database for data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse and BI. For more information about Greenplum, visit www.greenplum.com. To download Greenplum software, visit bgn.greenplum.com. |
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