This section provides an overview of Greenplum Database components and features such as high availability, parallel data loading features, and management utilities.

• About the Greenplum Architecture Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) database server with an architecture specially designed to manage large-scale analytic data warehouses and business intelligence workloads.
• About Management and Monitoring Utilities Greenplum Database provides standard command-line utilities for performing common monitoring and administration tasks.
• About Concurrency Control in Greenplum Database Greenplum Database uses the PostgreSQL Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) model to manage concurrent transactions for heap tables.
• About Parallel Data Loading This topic provides a short introduction to Greenplum Database data loading features.
• About Redundancy and Failover in Greenplum Database This topic provides a high-level overview of Greenplum Database high availability features.
• About Database Statistics in Greenplum Database An overview of statistics gathered by the ANALYZE command in Greenplum Database.

Parent topic: Greenplum Database Administrator Guide