Greenplum Database is a software solution built to support the next generation of data warehousing and large-scale analytics processing. Supporting SQL and MapReduce parallel processing, the database offers industry-leading performance at a low cost for companies managing terabytes to petabytes of data. Greenplum Database, a major release of Greenplum’s industry-leading massively parallel processing (MPP) database product, represents the culmination of more than seven years of advanced research and development by one of the most highly regarded database engineering teams in the industry. With this release, Greenplum solidifies its role as the only next-generation database software vendor to achieve critical.