EMC’s Greenplum Offers ‘big data’ Tools at no Charge
February 1, 2011 No CommentsEMC is now offering a community edition of its Greenplum data warehousing platform, as well as algorithms and data mining tools for working with large data sets, at no charge, the company announced Tuesday.
The software, which is available for download now at the company’s website, will eliminate initial cost barriers for such technologies, as well as enable developers and scientists to contribute to future tools, according to a statement.
Greenplum Community Edition includes the company’s MPP (massively parallel processing) database; MADlib, an open-source library of analytic algorithms; and a data-modeling tool called Alpine Miner.