Greenplum
Greenplum is a leading provider of database software for the next generation of data warehousing and large scale analytic processing. Greenplum Database powers some of the world’s largest commercial datasets, from gigabytes to petabytes, enabling companies worldwide to gain competitive advantage from their data.
Greenplum Database
Greenplum’s Flagship product, Greenplum Database, is a massively parallel processing (MPP) system designed to support the next-generation of data warehousing and large scale analytic processing.
Greenplum Database scales linearly from terabytes to petabytes of storage on commodity, low-cost hardware, storage and interconnect systems.
Greenplum is the first vendor to offer MapReduce, enabling customers to analyze all their data using SQL or MapReduce, whether structured or unstructured, in the database or in external file systems.
Greenplum partners with Sun Microsystems to deliver the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance, a complete solution bundling Greenplum Database with SunFire systems, for customers seeking an integrated solution that combines deep storage, high performance multi-core computing, high-speed interconnect and the massively parallel architecture of Greenplum Database at commodity hardware prices.
Headquarters: San Mateo, California, USA
Employees: 100 (March 2009)
Investors: Sun Microsystems, SAP, Meritech Capital Partners, Sierra Ventures, Mission Ventures, Hudson Ventures, Dawntreader Ventures
Founders: Luke Lonergan, Scott Yara
Flagship product: Greenplum Database
Greenplum Database powers the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance
Customers: Nearly 60 in verticals ranging from Financial Services and Telco to Internet, Retail, Transportation and Pharmaceutical
