Download Netezza (not really!!)

September 29, 2011 5 Comments

Lots of us tried to download Netezza and try out for free. No software of that sort exists as it is entirely based on hardware. Closest one that comes to my mind is Greenplum. With a bit of luck, you can get Greenplum up and running on a Red Hat (or compatible) Linux in a couple of hours:

http://www.greenplum.com/community/downloads/

Lingo:

Greenplum calls segment servers, these are similar to Netezza SPU.
In a small PC based implementation, you may have one master (no standby required) and two segment servers.
No windows version available, though windows client connectivity tools are supplied.

I believe (not sure) that you can deploy Greenplum in production with up to two segment servers. Look and feel is pretty similar to Netezza. Greenplum has a few more bells and whistles, check their administration guide; only one doc that you need to do anything on Greenplum.

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5 Responses to Download Netezza (not really!!)

Nancy says:

October 4, 2011 at 3:10 am

Thanks for the share!
Nancy.R

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asitabh says:

December 29, 2011 at 6:45 am

why are you promoting GreenPlum in the name of Netezza !!!

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- sidn says:
  
  February 10, 2012 at 4:55 pm
  
  I am not, clear from the title. Closest to freely available Netezza is Greenplum?!!
  Both of them are based on Postgres and both are MPP based databases; you may think of them as Postgres clustered systems.
  
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mike says:

February 6, 2012 at 10:22 pm

http://colbran.co.za/wordpress/2011/07/08/netezza-simulator/

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- sidn says:
  
  February 10, 2012 at 5:09 pm
  
  Thank you Mike.
  I also heard that this is not available now?
  
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