Pivotal Greenplum® 6.1 Documentation

Revised: 2019-11-7

This documentation describes how to install, configure, and use Pivotal Greenplum Database, and provides links to related Pivotal products that work with Greenplum Database.

Welcome to Pivotal Greenplum 6

Pivotal Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) database server that supports next generation data warehousing and large-scale analytics processing. By automatically partitioning data and running parallel queries, it allows a cluster of servers to operate as a single database supercomputer performing tens or hundreds times faster than a traditional database. It supports SQL, MapReduce parallel processing, and data volumes ranging from hundreds of gigabytes, to hundreds of terabytes.

Server Documentation

Pivotal Greenplum Database server installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance information

• Release Notes
• Installation Guide
• Administrator Guide
• Security Configuration Guide
• Best Practices Guide
• Utility Guide
• Reference Guide
  • PSQL Quick Reference
• Platform Extension Framework (PXF)

Client Documentation

UNIX-based client, load, and connectivity tools information for Pivotal Greenplum Database

• Client and Loader Tools
• DataDirect ODBC/JDBC Driver Documentation

Related Documentation

Related Pivotal Greenplum Database documentation and utilities

• Tutorials
• Virtual Memory Calculator (for resource queue-based workload management)
• gpmt Utility (diagnostic, troubleshooting, and information collection tool)

Related Products

• Pivotal Greenplum Command Center
• Pivotal Greenplum GPText
• Pivotal Greenplum-Informatica Connector
• Pivotal Greenplum-Kafka Integration
• Pivotal Greenplum-Spark Connector
• Pivotal Greenplum Stream Server