Greenplum unveils Greenplum Database 3.3

SAN MATEO, USA: Greenplum, provider of database software for the next generation of data warehousing and analytics has announced general availability of Greenplum Database 3.3, the latest version of the company's high-performance database software.

Greenplum Database 3.3 adds a wide range of capabilities that streamline management and enhance the performance of the product.

The Greenplum Database 3.3 release introduces a number of management and operations enhancements targeted at DBAs and IT professionals.

* Online system expansion: Customers need the flexibility to resize their Greenplum Database systems as their business needs dictate. Greenplum Database 3.3 introduces the ability to add servers to a database system and expand across the new servers while the system is online and responding to queries. Each additional server adds additional storage capacity, query performance and loading performance to the system. Online system expansion is a key enabling feature within Greenplum's Enterprise Data Cloud initiative.

* pgAdmin III administration console: pgAdmin III is the most popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database 3.3 ships with an enhanced version of pgAdmin III that has been extended to work with Greenplum Database and provides full support for Greenplum-specific capabilities. Greenplum has also contributed these enhancements back to the pgAdmin III Open Source project.

* Scalability-optimized management commands: Greenplum Database 3.3 incorporates a range of enhancements to management commands (including starting and stopping the database, analyzing tables, reintegration of failed nodes into the system) to improve performance and scalability on very large systems.

Greenplum Database 3.3 also incorporates a number of core performance enhancements, including faster sorting and enhanced performance of parallel aggregations.