This is a plug-in appliance that enables IT shops to combine a shared-nothing MPP (macro pre-processor) relational database with enterprise-class Apache Hadoop.
EMC
took another dive into the "big data" processing pool Sept. 21 when
it introduced a new analytics appliance that runs on its Greenplum software.
The announcement was made at the O'Reilly Strata Conference in New York City.
The
data storage provider is positioning the Greenplum Modular Data Computing
Appliance as the industry's first "complete" big data analytics
platform that can handle several petabytes of data. This is a plug-in appliance
that enables IT shops to combine a shared-nothing macro pre-processor (MPP)
relational database with enterprise-class Apache Hadoop in a single, unified
box to process both structured and unstructured data.
Apache
Hadoop, administered and maintained by the Apache Foundation, is the most
widely used big data analytics processing software currently in the industry.
Greenplum
DCA modules provide IT shops the ability to start small and expand the
appliance network in quarter-rack increments based on processing performance or
storage capacity needs, EMC said.
In
addition to mixing and matching Greenplum Database and Greenplum HD (Hadoop)
modules, enterprises can also bring their business-intelligence applications
directly into the cluster, and port them to the same appliance through the use
of optional Greenplum Data Integration Accelerator modules. The result is a
unified big data platform combining structured and unstructured data and
applications in a single infrastructure, EMC said.
The
EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance is available now.
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