July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
120 pages
2h 26m
English
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Preface
Welcome to Pivotal Greenplum, the open source massively parallel analytic database.
Why Are We Rewriting This Book?
Greenplum has come a long way since we wrote this book in 2016. There have been two major releases: version 5, in 2017, and version 6, announced in March 2019. While the basic principles of using Pivotal Greenplum as an analytic data warehouse have not changed, there are many new features that simply did not exist at the time of the first edition of this book. Some changes for this edition are in response to Greenplum customer requests. Others have arisen from analysis of code users have sent in. Yet others are derived from Pivotal’s project to move Greenplum to more recent versions of PostgreSQL than the version used as a base more than a decade ago. New features will be highlighted where discussed in the book with a note that looks like this:
New in Greenplum Version 6
This feature first appears in Greenplum version 6.
In addition, technology changes in the past two years have opened up new approaches to building Greenplum clusters. These are discussed in Chapter 3. The tools available to do analytics have also grown and are discussed in Chapter 6. Greenplum Command Center has added many new capabilities that are discussed in Chapter 7. The need to do federated queries and integrate data from a wide variety of sources has led to new tools for using and ingesting data into Greenplum. This is discussed in the Chapter 8.
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