Notes are below ... 2011/10/12 Ondrej Ivanič <ondrej.iva...@gmail.com>
> Hi, > > > The *problem* with Greenplum is that it's ultra-expensive once you leave > the > > CE version - and you're not supposed to be using the CE version for > > commercial usage last I read the license. Has that changed? > > Not sure. I haven't seen something like that in the license. After POC > we bought HW and license from EMC > Yes - I understand with a full license from EMC, or one of their appliances, the data does fly. > > Our problem is pairing > > up a web based GUI to a database we love using. Doesn't seem possible, > > because the user-friendly OLAP / data analysis / dashboard tools are all > > expecting functionality that PG doesn't have. > > Could you please name few of them? I'm looking for something like > Tableau but web based (without .Net) and hackable (our DB is partially > encrypted) > Try InetSoft - we have used them for reporting in the past, and they have an awesome drill-down, dashboard, reporting tool. It's also very hackable. I haven't looked at LogiXML in a while - but their Ad-Hoc tool was pretty impressive. I had forgotten about Tableau, and it appears they have a server component now. That's good to hear. -- Anthony Presley