Re: Questions about Postgres and Oracle

From: Paresh Yadav <yparesh_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:35:20 -0500
Message-ID: <CAPXEL0Lrogs5RqoyT0w+N7jc2YePsa-A+-90QQD9bJQmMWNDhg_at_mail.gmail.com>

Matt,
Two concerns were raised at that time with the financial health of Greenplum:

• The Financial Health itself as you pointed out
• Why is Greenplum not able to meet its own sales projections? Is it that the product is not matured yet?

It was matter of timing fo us. #1 above is addressed by EMC's acquisition of Greenplum. I personally know few brilliant people who have chosen to work at Greenplum and for me it was matter of time before the Greenplum offering became a polished product. Looks like it is now and it is time to give it a try.

Paresh

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Matthew Zito <matt_at_crackpotideas.com>wrote:

> And bear in mind that EMC bought Greenplum, so I wouldn't be so concerned
> about the financial health of Greenplum anymore. There was a large-scale
> database startup acquisition spree over the last few years - IBM bought
> Netezza, Teradata bought Aster Data, HP bought Vertica, EMC bought
> Greenplum, and Amazon is using ParAccel for their data
> warehouse-as-a-service platform.
>
> With all of these options available, it's going to be hard for Oracle to
> keep market share on the very high end, which is why they're pushing
> exadata so hard.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Paresh Yadav <yparesh_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Kevin,
>> Fortunately me too :) (didn't start the thread to offend the OT police.)
>>
>> Thanks for sharing this interesting info. I didn't know about EMC
>> Greenplum
>> UAP can do that, that sounds awesome. What other products can do so
>> (EnterpriseDB)? I didn't see that as being marketed heavily by Greenplum
>> (thousands of partitions) so I always assumed that they scale to large
>> size
>> dbs by clustering.
>>
>> On the flip side we found a very depressing critique of Greenplum's
>> financial results (which I read in I believe 2011 Nov/Dec time period and
>> I
>> have it saved somewhere to cover my back ) and wondering if this might
>> reflect on the product's strength, stayed away. We don't have a big shop
>> to evaluate a product so we depend on search data for level 1 evaluation.
>> Looks like we missed a very important product in our evaluation (it is by
>> design as we don't have lots of warm bodies to do trial and error). I will
>> give this another look, thanks again!
>>
>> PS - I believe even though this oracle-l, it is okay to discuss Postgres
>> as
>> long as it is in compared to capabilities of Oracle database.
>>
>

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Thanks
Paresh
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