What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases: Part II

Re:What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases:... by jacques_chester on Sunday October 25, 2015 @01:51PM (#10447645)

We announced our opensource plans in February[1]. I don't know when Greenplum will be ready to be opened up, as I work in Labs, which is a different division.

So far we have opened Apache HAWQ (incubating)[2], which is an SQL query engine for Hadoop based on the MPP query planner in Greenplum.

And Apache Geode (incubating)[3], which is based on Gemfire, which is the most successful in-memory grid database you've never heard of.

Edit: I suppose I should mention, entirely in my own self-interest, that we are hiring in our Big Data division across all our products. You can look at our webpage (https://pivotal.io/careers) or email me ([email protected]).

[1] http://pivotal.io/big-data/press-release/pivotal-introduces-...

[2] http://hawq.incubator.apache.org/

[3] http://geode.incubator.apache.org/

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Re:What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases:... by lobster_johnson on Sunday October 25, 2015 @02:48PM (#10447865)

Looks like you got GemFire from Gemstone, which is also owned by VMware? That explains why it's written in Java, whereas I was happily surprised that HAWQ is written in C++.

It's great that you're releasing stuff as open source. Perhaps you could persuade a colleague at your other division to talk about Greenplum in this thread?

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Re:What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases:... by jacques_chester on Sunday October 25, 2015 @03:33PM (#10448049)

We (Pivotal) had a bunch of EMC and VMWare companies, technologies and technologies spun into us when the company was founded a few years ago.

Including: Cloud Foundry, Greenplum, Spring, Gemfire and of course the namesake -- Pivotal Labs.

Email me and I will connect you with our director of engineering for Big Data.

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