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deepeshkumar G.
DG
deepeshkumar G.
Technical Specialist functional
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Open-Source MPP Database That Supercharges Large-Scale Analytics"
5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

Open Source masterpiece Database with MPP architecture for handling very large data warehouses and effective handling. MPP improved the Data analytics with direct streaming of data from disk to CPU have improved the performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

Requires high level technical know how for the initial setup and is in a steady growth requires continuous learning to manage the DB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naveen A.
NA
Naveen A.
Business Analyst
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Greenplum - BIg Data Database"
4/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

It is most modern and powerful DB build Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

It's one of the most modern and powerful open source DB built for modern analytics using AI. The Database is built on already popular Postgres DB architecture which is a proven technology. Green plumb provides the unique cost-based query optimizer which helps to query large amounts of data and still pay less. This also does not degrade the DB performance even while dealing with petabytes of data. It's easy to deploy and maintain. Greenplum also provides AI features that collaborate with the analytics and operational workload features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ritesh g.
RG
ritesh g.
Data Engineer II
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Originally submitted 3/29/2020
"Excellent MPP tool and beat for data warehouse and ingestion through big data"
4.5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

1) UI and scripting options for Greenplum. 2) Greenplum command center and alert with out of memory, max connections and segment failure helps the DBA to solve the issues quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

Some inbuilt maintenance like vacuum should be there. And some new issues come up after upgrade so more testing from Pivotal is required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eusuf K.
EK
Eusuf K.
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Not widely used but a good option"
2.5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

Greenplum is a good option to have, but till now, I have not seen significant market depth in its usage. Its capabilities are excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

While it has great potential, there are other players which are far easier to use and have more acceptance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Forest L.
FL
Forest L.
Vice General Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Experience in using Greenplum for 2 years"
3.5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

- PostgreSQL Compatibility

- Versatile plugins

- Versatile support for JSON handling and GIS

- Ease of use

- Easy integration with external data sources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

- Performance isn't good for extensive datasets processing (e.g., query, join...)

- Performance tuning is hard

- Adding new data node is not easy

- Concurrency processing isn't good enough

- No support for columnar mode query Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arunesh T.
AT
Arunesh T.
Lead Assistant Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Originally submitted 4/6/2020
"User Friendly and easy to use. It has multiple features which is very effective in data analysis."
4.5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

Easy to use, performance and implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

Consolidation of third party integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anand V.
AV
Anand V.
CGIA Member
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Excellent Scalable Unsupervised machine learning database"
5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

Ease of use, Ease of integration, deployment models, visualization, reporting, dashboarding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

There is nothing that I dislike about the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Industrial Automation
AI
Verified User in Industrial Automation
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Principal Greenplum DBA"
4/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

I like how I can improve my performance in big tables using the MPP architecture that Greenplum gives me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

The daily maintenance is usually a problem, if we have a big table and a lot of users are using this table Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
AC
Verified User in Computer & Network Security
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Greenplum is highly scalable and has extensive parallelism Over the segments"
5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

Mirroring concept, expanding the nodes without downtime and performance is high Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

Sometimes GP Optimizer will not work as expected.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications
UT
Verified User in Telecommunications
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"It was a very great experience using Greenplum"
5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

Massive Parallel Processing is the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

Sometimes it goes slow but there's no such problem in that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Karunanithi S.
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Karunanithi Shanmugam
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Last activity over 5 years ago

Does it have the capability to use Metadata agent Query Management?

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