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Is Greenplum's Commitment to Bizgres Enough to Depend On?

Seth Grimes has a writeup on Greenplum's commitment to Bizgres, which is something I've looked at a couple times myself. Rather than repeat saying what he already wrote up, I suggest checking it out at the IE blog. I've talked with them more recently so I added a couple comments to his post.

Bottom line: I'd think twice about using Bizgres in a production environment simply because of the apparently small community of users, and the minimal emphasis on Bizgres by Greenplum. If they follow through with more community support, that would alleviate my concerns.

I'm not really sure why they wanted to put this out there as a supported project, other than for research input and testing of desired features. They have a lot on their hands building the Greenplum database, let alone distracting from their core business on what, by their own admission, is a seed project that is the single-node database you scale out of with the Greenplum database.

  Posted by mmadsen on March 6, 2008 4:55 PM |

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