We (Pivotal, for whom I don't speak in any official capacity) have also opensourced Apache HAWQ (incubating)[1], which is an SQL front-end for Hadoop that was extracted from Greenplum, as well as Apache Geode (incubating)[2] which was based on GemFire.
This was part of a general announcement we made in February that our intention was to opensource our data products as it became possible to do so.
Incidentally, we are hiring engineers across our entire data suite, including PostgreSQL specialists. The Data division solves seriously heavyweight distributed problems. You can look up the listings on http://pivotal.io/careers, or if you like helping a fellow engineer collect a referral, email me: jchester@pivotal.io and I'll work out which office and division to send you to.
Oh man this is huge. Are you guys opening Chorus and the Pivotal HD stuff too? I'd be shorting HP stock right now, because Vertica just lost all of its appeal. Teradata and it's Hadoop H-SQL or whatever must be shaking in their boots too. Are you guys going to attempt to upstream this or is it forked to the point of no return?
I'd love to work on a project like this but I've got no PGSQL experience (though I have worked on HFT both with KDB+ and writing a fairly decent functional knock-off operating in production and I bet the distribution and data set problems were similar). How is EMC to work for as a parent company?
We (Pivotal, for whom I don't speak in any official capacity) have also opensourced Apache HAWQ (incubating)[1], which is an SQL front-end for Hadoop that was extracted from Greenplum, as well as Apache Geode (incubating)[2] which was based on GemFire.
This was part of a general announcement we made in February that our intention was to opensource our data products as it became possible to do so.
Incidentally, we are hiring engineers across our entire data suite, including PostgreSQL specialists. The Data division solves seriously heavyweight distributed problems. You can look up the listings on http://pivotal.io/careers, or if you like helping a fellow engineer collect a referral, email me: jchester@pivotal.io and I'll work out which office and division to send you to.
[1] http://hawq.incubator.apache.org/
[2] http://geode.incubator.apache.org/