Bizgres MPP 2.1 Available for Public Download

GreenPlum Inc. has released Bizgres MPP 2.1, the scalable data warehousing
clustered version of PostgreSQL.  It is available for trial download at
BGN.greenplum.com, the Bizgres Network website.

Bizgres MPP 2.1 is based on PostgreSQL 8.1 and will support most PostgreSQL
applications out of the box.   It allows you to spread your database
across multiple servers, and run parallelized queries over databases up to
100 terabytes in size, with data read rates over 10GB/second.  Bizgres MPP
is built on a fault-tolerant shared-nothing architecture which allows for
cluster expansion, using commodity hardware.

The new Bizgres Network website (BGN.greenplum.com), Greenplum's customer
web portal, is open for free registration and downloads today.  The
Bizgres Network offers downloads, an extensive knowledge base, and online
support for both Bizgres MPP and open source Bizgres Database.  Try it
out! GreenPlum will even provide 30 days free support.

For those of you who participated in the Bizgres MPP 2.0 beta, new features
include:

-- PostgreSQL 8.1 compatibility ­ now faster and better concurrency with
the latest release of PostgreSQL
-- Improved Transaction Throughput ­ supports mixed light OLTP and DSS
workloads more effectively, with hundreds of statements per second of
throughput
-- Optimized for the latest Intel/AMD CPUs ­ all CPUs work together to
answer each query, even on single hosts
-- Improved Fault-Tolerance and Back-Up and Restore utilities

GreenPlum Inc. of San Mateo is a sponsor of the PostgreSQL and Bizgres open
source projects.  The open source Bizgres Database and Bizgres Clickstream
code remain available at www.bizgres.org.  Bizgres MPP is Greenplum's
commercial offering.

For questions from the community, please contact Josh Berkus,
jberkus@greenplum.com.  Members of the press should contact Emily Swanson,
eswanson@breakawaycom.com.


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Josh Berkus
Open Source Projects
GreenPlum Inc.
San Francisco