GLAST Ground Software Workshop January 2001 - SLAC
Greenplum Database utilizes a shared-nothing, massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture that has been
designed for business intelligence and analytical processing. Most of today’s general-purpose relational database
management systems are designed for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) applications. Since these systems are
marketed as supporting data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) applications, their customers have inevitably
inherited this less-than-optimal architecture. The reality is that BI and analytical workloads are fundamentally different
from OLTP transaction workloads and therefore require a profoundly different architecture....
