Pivotal Strengthens Its Commitment to PostgreSQL in the Enterprise With the Release of Pivotal Greenplum 6 and a New Offering Pivotal Postgres

Pivotal Software, Inc. (NYSE: PVTL), a leading cloud-native platform
provider, today at Greenplum
Summit announced updates to Pivotal Greenplum,
the leading massively parallel processing analytic database based on
open-source Postgres, as well as a new offering, Pivotal Postgres,
Pivotal’s enterprise distribution of open source Postgres - the fastest
growing database of the year for two consecutive years (2017 and 2018)
in terms of popularity.

"For 15 years, Pivotal has developed Pivotal Greenplum, the best version
of Postgres for business intelligence and analytics at massive scale,”
says Jacque Istok, VP of Data at Pivotal. “We’re now combining that with
our market-leading experience with the platform, tools, and
methodologies for modern application transformation, in order to make
Greenplum a first-class citizen in a modern software setting. We’re now
also applying our Postgres expertise to offer our customers enterprise
support for operational databases in the form of Pivotal Postgres.”

“Several factors have contributed to the recent and ongoing renaissance
of PostgreSQL, including the addition of critical functionality for
developers and the databases’ focus on building a diverse, extensible
ecosystem,” said Rachel Stephens, Analyst at RedMonk. “Long a stalwart
of traditional relational needs, PostgreSQL has become more versatile
over time which has allowed it to expand its footprint across a wide
range of database needs.”

Pivotal Greenplum 6 Highlights

In its latest version (v6), Greenplum combines fast analytic reads with
improved write performance to help users consolidate a variety of
analytic and operational workloads in a single environment—for example,
point queries, data science exploration, fast event processing, and
long-running analytical queries—all with greater scale and concurrency
over Greenplum 5. This workload consolidation in a single database
engine, allow users to analyze more data without unwanted movement
between niche database environments.

Greenplum for Kubernetes, which is also available for Pivotal Container
Service (PKS), helps automate self-service deployment, management, and
upgrades for a multitude of Greenplum nodes, so data professionals and
application developers can focus on higher-level business needs. Data
professionals can now enjoy modern automation and orchestration benefits
previously enjoyed by application developers.

Learn more …

• Blog
  post about the Pivotal Greenplum 6 release
• Pivotal
  Greenplum home page on Pivotal.io
• Upcoming
  Webinar
• Greenplum
  YouTube Channel
• Greenplum.org
  open source community

Pivotal Postgres Highlights

Our new Pivotal Postgres operational database offering is open source
Postgres, curated and packaged with important modules required in large
production deployments, like Replication Manager. Over time we will
curate more of these supporting modules, allowing developers to focus on
their business problem rather than researching and acquiring all the
right modules, with the right version compatibilities across the
components.

We’re offering Pivotal Postgres, because of PostgreSQL’s consistent
market growth, flexibility and its enterprise readiness.
PostgreSQL is a remarkably versatile database. It can handle many
data models including relational, object-relational, and graph, as well
as many data types and languages. This allows developers to cast a broad
net with Postgres and simplify their portfolio with fewer specialized
data stores.

In terms of enterprise readiness, Postgres is also proven at scale for
mission-critical apps: Postgres offers very reliable data and
transaction integrity. The world’s largest organizations trust their
most important database apps to PostgreSQL.

Learn more …

• Blog
  post for our new Pivotal Postgres offering
• Product
  page on Pivotal.io for Pivotal Postgres
• Upcoming
  Webinar

About Pivotal Software, Inc.

Pivotal combines our cloud-native platform, developer tools, and unique
methodology to help the world’s largest companies transform the way they
build and run their most important software applications. Our technology
is used by Global 2000 companies to achieve strategic advantages in
software development and IT operations. Learn more at pivotal.io.

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