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Google BigQuery vs Greenplum Database

Both stand on data warehouse software. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Greenplum combines PostgreSQL-based warehousing with distributed processing and external data access. Check its documented access-control limits and distinguish the free open-source plan from the commercial Tanzu offering.

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The facts

	Google BigQuery	Greenplum Database
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Web	API, Linux, Self-hosted
Lowest paid plan	Not published	Free or on request
Plans published	None	2
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	cloud.google.com	greenplum.org
On data warehouse software	#10 of 27	#6 of 27

Google BigQuery: what it does well

Greenplum Database: what it does well

Apache 2-licensed open-source plan
MPP architecture distributes query processing across servers
Supports compressed column-oriented storage
PXF connects to object stores and SQL databases

What to know first

Row-level and column-level access control are not supported
Commercial Tanzu Greenplum pricing is on request
The cluster requires a coordinator and multiple segment servers

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