Sun/Greenplum

by Richard Hackathorn, Colin White

The Sun Data Warehouse Appliance combines Sun's new Sun Fire X4500 data server with the Greenplum Database in a single package powered by the Solaris 10 Operating System.

Company Overview

Greenplum was formed (by the merger of Metapa and Didera) to pioneer the use of open source databases for business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW). Greenplum brought together experts from the data warehousing, supercomputing, and performance acceleration industries to build a BI platform that could capitalize on the advantages of open source and commodity computing. To date, Greenplum has raised more than $30 million in venture financing, led...

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