An MPP (massively parallel processing) database distributes data and queries across each node in a cluster of commodity servers. Greenplum’s approach to building an MPP data warehouse is unique. By ...

Pivotal Software Inc. has made good on a promise it made earlier this year to open-source its HAWQ SQL engine for Hadoop, and it’s also done the same for its MADlib machine learning technology. As of ...

Today, MADlib supports HAWQ, Pivotal Greenplum and PostgreSQL, all provided in a licensed and supported enterprise subscription offering from Pivotal as part of Pivotal Big Data Suite. Pivotal will ...

It's always fighting talk when a vendor makes an announcement foretelling the end of a technology approach. Is open source HAWQ really going to kill the traditional database? Pivotal is an interesting ...