By x0x0
I used greenplum until about three years ago when that employer replaced it. There is no way to describe it other than brittle and unsuited for production work. My peers discovered multiple ways to kill the db, all with data loss. Before you use it you should find a current user. It is one of a handful of techs on my personal “never again” list.
Licensing was also ludicrously expensive, including an attempt to multiply our license cost by 10 one year. I’d be very leery of lock-in given the owners. I also suspect this is the result of a failed attempt to sell it and is an open-source hail mary.
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463146
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