The Greenplum Data Warehouse Powered by Sun

Benefits Overview

The solution combines Sun's Sun Fire X4540 data server powered by AMD Opteron processors with Greenplum Database in a single solution capable of analyzing hundreds of terabytes of business data faster and cheaper than any product on the market.

Key Benefits

  • Value: The Sun Fire X4540 system powers the most energy- and power-efficient data warehouse solution in the industry, at the lowest acquisition costs, a fraction of comĀ­petitive systems.
  • Performance: Scan 100 gigabytes of data per minute on each node in the cluster. Load 100 gigabytes of data per hour on each node in the cluster.
  • Openness: Best-in-class open source software.
  • Ease-of-use: Integrated turnkey solution.
  • Reliability: Robust failover and mirroring delivers continuous uptime.
  • Scalability: Dynamically provision nodes to scale to petabyte class warehouse.
  • Proven: Satisfied customers from the Fortune 1000, around the globe.

Super-Capacity Solution

Database management software, high-performance server, high-density on-board storage.


Greenplum Database Scale-Everything Architecture

Massive parallel processing that leverages a high-performance interconnect, enabling database clustering across multiple servers.


Greenplum Database Query-In-Storage

Parallel aware query optimizer moves processing to where the data resides.


Open Source

Powered by best-in-class open source software including the Solaris Operating System (OS), PostgreSQL, and ZFS.


Open Interfaces

Industry-standard interfaces (SQL, ODBC, JDBC).