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Verified User in Information Services
CI
Verified User in Information Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It's powerful feature of supporting multiple native scripting api"
4.5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

Native scripting Api, and inbuilt array data type Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

Some sql native fiction like unique is bit slow what I observed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance
CI
Verified User in Insurance
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The experience was similar to Oracle/Netezza. I used it as source/target for data migration."
4/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

It is very affordable for small enterprises. I have seen it being used by one of my clients. They choose it load or unload data using ETL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

Not enough online guide for troubleshooting. Need community support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy
UO
Verified User in Oil & Energy
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"As greenplum developer it's been 3+ years and it's fantastic for massive data"
4.5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

Best helpful is distributed system. To load huge data it's just simply superb Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

Update statement wil work Hinder the fastness of GP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Bringing Postgres to another level"
5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

Ability to scale quickly and deploy to the cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

So far everything seems good and easy to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking
CB
Verified User in Banking
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Non Bias T-SQL Developer"
3/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

The ability to run multiple queries of dataset over millions of records Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

There is only limited support for open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
CI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Consultant for GreenPlum"
4/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

Information_Schema --> Metadata maintenance. Partition Exchange. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

Utilities. Unlike many other MPP, GP has no varieties of utilities for ETL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
UH
Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Greenplum for feature engineering"
4.5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

Greenplum is very powerful for MPP requirement. Especially for analytics need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

Sometime performance is unpredictable with heavy queries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wole O.
WO
Wole O.
Team Leader
Non-Profit Organization Management
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Pivotal Review"
5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

The fact that you can adapt your tools and methodologies to a cloud scale. Simply stated, to run apps on the cloud securely and reliably without the stress of manual patching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

Using the pivotal solution requires whole bunch of learning and knowledge fine-tunning; the materials available to achieve this knowledge is limited, residual knowledge plays a huge role here. So newbies might be totally frustrated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet
UI
Verified User in Internet
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"PostgreSQL database for analytics"
4/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

I like how Greenplum is a very stable and efficient analytics database. It can run complex SQL on multiple notes without too much trouble and the database is pretty tunable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

I dislike that this database software is somewhat expensive for what it yields. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SUBHA P.
SP
SUBHA P.
Technical Lead
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Powerful database in BIG DATA Industry"
3.5/5
What do you like best about VMware Greenplum?

MPP Architecture so that master sends work load to all the segments internally Zero data loss as replication happens between the segments of primary and mirror segments, also a secondary is present for master too Built on PostgreSQL 8.* version Multiple features like gpload, gpdfist used for external data loading gpaddmirrors, gpexpand helps in scaling the Greenplum cluster easily gpcheckperf helps in analyzing performance of disk I/O, memory bandwidth, Network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VMware Greenplum?

The catalog corruption occurs and it slightly becomes difficult to recover failed segments gpcheckcat though helps in detecting catalog issues, it is not much efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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