EMC's Greenplum Goes Big in Data Analytics

Stephen Lawson | InfoWorld | December 7, 2011

Greenplum's Unified Analytics Platform combines its database with the Hadoop system so it can work on both structured and unstructured data

The Greenplum division of EMC is building a single data analytics platform that can crunch both structured and unstructured data and give a broad range of users the tools to study an enterprise's information.

Greenplum, which EMC acquired last year, plans to introduce its Unified Analytics Platform in the first quarter of next year. UAP will combine the EMC Greenplum database with EMC Greenplum HD, which uses the Hadoop open source analysis framework for unstructured data, and EMC Greenplum Chorus 2.0. Chorus is the user interface for setting up queries and creating visualizations, and in the new version it lets users address both structured and unstructured data...