What are main components of DCA

Post date: Dec 13, 2013 1:51:48 PM

Greenplum Database:  Greenplum Database is an MPP database server, based on PostgreSQL open-source technology. It is explicitly designed to support BI applications and large, multi terabyte data warehouses.

Greenplum Database system: An associated set of Segment Instances and a Master Instance running on an array, which can be composed of one or more hosts.

GPDB Master Servers: The servers responsible for the automatic parallelization of queries.

GPDB Segment Servers: The servers that perform the real work of processing and analyzing the data.