Here are top ten reasons for choosing Greenplum for building your data science and business intelligence solution :-
- It is Open-Source, and completely free. Now considering licensing cost of proprietary databases and data warehouse solutions, this can be life saver for your business
- It supports powerful data loading capabilities that can load terabytes of data within seconds.
- It integrates with Hadoop and S3, thus giving you access to your archived data in files.
- It support external tables, and can load data from CSV and Parquet files.
- It is an MPP database that can scale using off-the shelf servers rather than requiring expansive proprietary servers and operating systems.
- It supports columnar tables, as well row-wise tables. Columnar tables are great for analytical queries.
- You can setup Greenplum in your private cloud or data center as well as on virtual machines in public cloud.
- Greenplum is based on open source PostgreSQL, so there is no shortage of resources who can potentially support Greenplum once it is setup.
- You can use Greenplum with open source BI visualization tools to power a complete BI and data science solution for your organization.
- Greenplum support data science from within database, thus you will not need separate hardware setup for many of the data science problems and there will be no need to constantly move data for your data science workload as well.