Data warehousing - Greenplum

A request was made at the last LAPUG meeting regarding scheduling
Greenplum to pay us a visit for the purpose of offer a presentation of
data warehousing. I am happy to report that I was contacted by
Greenplum, and they've tentatively offered to visit us some time in
the future.

Since the purpose of the visit is open for discussion, I wanted to put
a call out to our little community to see if anyone was interested in
any specific topics they would like Greenplum to develop.

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Richard Broersma Jr.

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Richard Broersma wrote:
> A request was made at the last LAPUG meeting regarding scheduling
> Greenplum to pay us a visit for the purpose of offer a presentation of
> data warehousing.

Indeed I did make that request. :)

> I am happy to report that I was contacted by
> Greenplum, and they've tentatively offered to visit us some time in
> the future.
>
>

Very cool!
> Since the purpose of the visit is open for discussion, I wanted to put
> a call out to our little community to see if anyone was interested in
> any specific topics they would like Greenplum to develop.
>

Well I would like to see:

1) How people are using the product?
2) What types of markets/industries?
3) Why use greenplum vs stock postgresql 8.3.1 (or similiar/later
versions, which appear to have a lot of the db features greenplum added
rolled in).
4) What sort of data is being stored? (I'm interested in geospatial data
as well as transaction records/purchase histories.).

I'm sure other people will have certain types of data they might want to
warehouse. :)

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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Charles Wyble <charles(at)thewybles(dot)com> wrote:

> 1) How people are using the product?
> 2) What types of markets/industries?
> 3) Why use greenplum vs stock postgresql 8.3.1 (or similar/later versions,
> which appear to have a lot of the db features greenplum added rolled in).
> 4) What sort of data is being stored? (I'm interested in geospatial data as
> well as transaction records/purchase histories.).

I will certainly pass this information along. Thanks for the feedback!

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Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.

Visit the Los Angles PostgreSQL Users Group (LAPUG)
http://pugs.postgresql.org/lapug

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Richard Broersma
<richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I will certainly pass this information along. Thanks for the feedback!

I wanted to give an update regarding Greenplum's visit to LAPUG.
Greenplum is scheduled to present to LAPUG on October 31.

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Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.

Visit the Los Angeles PostgreSQL Users Group (LAPUG)
http://pugs.postgresql.org/lapug