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That's interesting. 8.x is pretty antique, though; has anything from the 9.x mainline been merged back in? I'd love to hear about a release date, too.

jacques_chester 11y ago
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 https://pivotal.io/careers) or email me (jchester@pivotal.io). [1] http://pivotal.io/big-data/press-release/pivotal-introduces-first-open-source-enterprise-grade-big-data-product-suite http://pivotal.io/big-data/press-release/pivotal-introduces-... [2] http://hawq.incubator.apache.org/ http://hawq.incubator.apache.org/ [3] http://geode.incubator.apache.org/ http://geode.incubator.apache.org/
- lobster_johnson 11y ago
  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?
  - jacques_chester 11y ago
    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.

jacques_chester 11y ago

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 https://pivotal.io/careers) or email me (jchester@pivotal.io). [1] http://pivotal.io/big-data/press-release/pivotal-introduces-first-open-source-enterprise-grade-big-data-product-suite http://pivotal.io/big-data/press-release/pivotal-introduces-... [2] http://hawq.incubator.apache.org/ http://hawq.incubator.apache.org/ [3] http://geode.incubator.apache.org/ http://geode.incubator.apache.org/

lobster_johnson 11y ago
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?
- jacques_chester 11y ago
  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.